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Several of Harvard’s wealthy peer institutions faced similar losses in fiscal year 2009. Last year, Yale’s endowment—higher education’s second largest after Harvard—fell 25 percent, and Stanford’s endowment fell by 27 percent...
...Ultra Soft”, a bathroom tissue befitting a patrician, is a reasonable 83¢ per roll. That extra seven cents is an investment in the comfort of the next Emerson, and will allow us to once again raise aloft a standard of obscene luxury that Yale and peer institutions will again struggle to match...
...Nobelist, Al Gore, would never be anything more than a Democratic politician, and therefore inherently untrustworthy, but the global climate body rose above politics, having the benefit of being made up of thousands of scientists from more than 100 countries, who drew conclusions on climate change from countless peer-reviewed scientific studies. The Norwegian Nobel committee lauded the IPCC's fourth assessment report in 2007 as creating an ever broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming. (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...admitted to an embarrassing factual mistake: the claim in the 2007 report that the glaciers of the Himalayas could disappear by 2035 if the world continued warming at its current rate. That finding was revealed to be false, and worse, it was discovered to be based not on any peer-reviewed science but on a speculative comment made to a New Scientist reporter by one researcher...
According to Mount, the energy seen among Harvard’s applicants is lacking at many peer institutions, where students have been discouraged by last year’s recruiting cycle...