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...into the Westridge Elementary School in West Des Moines to caucus. To my left, in a library full of Laura Ingalls Wilder books, the Democrats assembled for their uniquely convoluted system, which involves gathering next to the sign of your favorite candidate, hoping you can collect more than 15 percent of the voters in the room, trying to convince the followers of the least popular candidates to join you - and, most of all, re-explaining the rules every few minutes. To my right, in the unadorned gym, the Republicans sat in neat rows of folding chairs, wrote down the name...
Under El-Erian’s watch in fiscal year 2007, Harvard’s endowment earned returns of 23 percent, ballooning from $29.2 billion to $34.9 billion, even after $1 billion was withdrawn to underwrite nearly a third of the University’s operating costs...
...percent growth was the highest Harvard had seen since 2000 and one of the five best returns ever when compared to internal benchmarks. The gains came amid a strong bull market: the Wilshire 5000, a broad index of stocks, gained 19.6 percent over the same period...
...comprise a substantial proportion of the campus population—these ethnicities can more easily draw upon sheer numerical leverage in order to make their presence and voices heard. Asians collectively comprise a fifth of campus. But what of other, less represented groups? Mexican Americans make up 3.7 percent of the undergraduate population, while comprising 7.4 percent of the United States. Native Americans comprise an even smaller proportion of the student body. For purely numerical reasons, these groups have a much harder time mobilizing their collective voices. One of the goals of an academic institution is to give students...
According to the Iowa Democratic party calculations, Obama was leading both Hillary Clinton and John Edwards with 38% percent of the likely convention delegates, with nearly all of the precincts reporting...