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...Harvard’s neighbor, MIT, said yesterday that it had managed a 3.2 percent return over the past year. Its endowment now totals $10.1 billion. The largest higher educational endowment to announce a loss so far, the University of Pennsylvania, dropped 3.9 percent on the year. But the Philadelphia school still bested the negative 4.4 percent median return of 165 peer institutions, as measured by the Trust Universe Comparison Service. While these returns pale in comparison to the consistent double-digit returns posted by the wealthiest university endowments over the past few years, they remain robust in light...
...spot last season. “The whole goal in our fall semester is everyone’s individual game,” Green said. “We’re not too focused on the spring.” Next weekend Harvard will travel to Philadelphia for the Cissie Leary Invitational. —Staff writer Jake I. Fisher can be reached at jifisher@fas.harvard.edu...
...outrageous that John Kerry is questioning people's patriotism," he told the New York Times in April of that year. "John Kerry will say anything for his political benefit," he told Reuters that October. "Now his campaign surrogates have taken those attacks to a new low," he told the Philadelphia Inquirer that November...
...take Door No. 2. So do six other teams of Cahills. All scamper off in search of the titular 39 clues, aiding and double-crossing and feuding with each other all the while. The hunt leads them to a lot of exotic locations (Philadelphia! Paris!) where they have subtly educational adventures...
...Livestrong ride, run and walk in the Philadelphia area, some 5,000 people took part on a beautiful summer day to raise $3 million for the LAF. "These aren't fun runs," says Armstrong. "They are very emotional, tearful times." Some participants had cancer; some were survivors. And most of those who rode by bore on their backs the names of dead relatives, a rolling graveyard passing through the placid Pennsylvania countryside...