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...what they owe or will owe to their retired workers. Many states have done a much worse: West Virginia, Road Island, Connecticut and Oklahoma all have less than 60% of their retiree benefits paid for. "The number of state funding ratios at the low end is startling," says Peter Hayes, who heads BlackRock's municipal bond management committee. "The prospect for even greater liabilities is a reasonable scenario if the country becomes trapped in a prolonged recession...
That hardly justifies a suicide test kit, say anti-euthanasia groups, who are up in arms about Nitschke's move. "Nitschke is an extremist and a self-publicist," says Peter Saunders, director of Care Not Killing, an anti-euthanasia group in London. "He will prey upon vulnerable people with these kits, and as a result they won't get the medical treatment and proper palliative care that they really need...
...standing-room only crowd that turned out to the Institute of Politics’ “Take Me Out to the Ballgame!” forum on Friday afternoon. The discussion, which featured Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and baseball television analyst Peter Gammons, focused on the game’s impact on race and family life. They addressed the question of how the sport has taken on a singularly influential place in the American consciousness. Robert Behn, senior lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, directed the proceedings which...
...years we’ll all be gone by global warming or something. Let’s talk about now, the present. Fill up these empty shacks.” —Staff writer Vidya B. Viswanathan can be reached at viswanat@fas.harvard.edu.—Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...
...Ryan Kim and Ilya Trubov (8-4).It was to prove a false omen. No. 3 partnership Hayes and Felton fell to an 8-3 defeat, while the No.1 combination of tenacity and power—Clayton and Chijoff-Evans—was unable to defeat counterparts Peter Capkovic and Alex Vuckovic—the duo clinching the doubles point (8-5) and a psychological boost for Princeton.The Tigers proceeded to build on their advantage in the singles. At No. 1, Capkovic—the 2008 Ivy League Player of the Year—raced...