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...major reduction of the comfort level and demoralization,” P. Oktor Skjaervo, the chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, wrote in an e-mail.And the Gunzburg Center for European Studies had to reduce spending by 20 percent last year, according to its director, Peter A. Hall. In so doing, the center eliminated an annual graduate student conference and cut back on the workshops and post-doctoral fellowships it sponsored, said Hall, who is the Krupp Foundation professor of European studies.“We’re saving shoelaces,” he said.Maull...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In FAS Financial Outlook, Key Questions Remain | 5/12/2006 | See Source »

...organization's survey of state statistics. "The President and congressional leaders said their top priority was to sign up low-income seniors, so this is terribly disappointing," says Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA. "These are the people who need the help the most." Medicare spokesman Peter Ashkenaz acknowledges that the low-income elderly have been "a difficult group to reach," but he points out that they are exempt from the May 15 deadline and officials will continue to try to sign up more of them throughout the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has the Medicare Drug Plan Turned a Corner? | 5/10/2006 | See Source »

Australia's Treasurer Peter Costello has had few better moments in his political career. Yet tonight he did not seem likely to either punch the air or appear too pleased with himself. Months of huddling with officials in preparing his 11th Budget had given Costello a pallid face. He looked in need of a decent night's sleep. His head was full of new tax scales, growth projections and spending measures. But ignore the facial puffiness and creases, for his lively eyes told the real story. Here was a happy fellow. The tax-cut man cometh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEB EXCLUSIVE: As Good As It Gets | 5/9/2006 | See Source »

...human hand. I now think it entirely possible that the American gunsmith John Moses Browning "sitteth," as his admirers say, "at the right hand of God." Shooting for sport isn't, as I once thought, the desperate outlet of sad Hemingway types, but a fiendishly difficult art. As Peter, a former naval officer, says, "It's got all the Zen you could want." Trying to hit a bullseye smaller than a saucer from a distance of 100 m or more-and do it over and over again-demands things of you, and gives things to you. You have to align...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trigger Happiness | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

...name of a respected former CIA operations chief as Hayden's prospective No. 2 to emphasizing his liberal arts background and calling him "An Independent Thinker And A Nonconformist" in a White House fact sheet, the campaign was intended to assuage doubts expressed by House Intelligence Committee chairman Peter Hoekstra and some Senate Republicans about installing the Air Force general atop the nation's civilian spy agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Hayden Have a Chance? | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

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