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With departments seeking to “cut the fat” from their budgets to the tune of a 15 percent reduction requested by the FAS administration, bagels and bacon will be the first to go. Rather than eliminating central costs such as employees and course materials, department chairs are looking to cut down on non-essential expenses such as food and office supplies as they set the next year’s budget...
...hypocrisy and anti-Semitism in light of other human-rights abusers around the world. Hampshire had not withdrawn its money from the State Street fund as of yesterday, according to a spokeswoman for the school. The college has $4 million invested in the fund, which represented about 20 percent of the school’s managed funds at the end of 2008. As of yesterday, Dershowitz and the college remained at loggerheads, with the Harvard professor vowing to continue his campaign until Hampshire publicly clarified its decision. “The president of Hampshire said personally to me that...
...It’s easy to do that when the endowment is up eight or 12 percent,” Clair said. “It’s much harder when the growth is not there...
...this week when the parliament in Kyrgyzstan votes on whether or not to kick the U.S. out of the Manas airbase, which has played a key role in air support in Afghanistan. The U.N. just announced that 2,118 civilians died in fighting in Afghanistan in 2008, a 40 percent hike as the war grows ever more bloody. And, last week, the Taliban "welcomed" U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke to Kabul by launching an audacious terror attack on three government buildings in the capital, leaving 26 people dead...
...shift towards acceptance of the Taliban," military scholar Anthony Cordesman told a congressional panel last week. He noted that polling in Afghanistan shows "the number of people who feel the United States has performed well in Afghanistan has been cut in half in the last three years," from 68 percent in 2005 to 32 percent...