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...need to protect the endowment's purchasing power from market and inflation fluctuations can also guide the way Harvard invests. "Universities live to a certain extent off endowments," says Nicholas Potter, head of investments for J. P. Morgan and Company. "They take a different approach than pension funds and tend to be more conservative because they can't take risks in the long term...
Managing an endowment internally is a question of a university's philosophy, says Potter. "Do you want to run your own business or hire somebody...
Among some of the other special exhibits will be a showing of pottery pieces by Japanese potter Yakota Yabe. Both Cody and Yabe are professionals invited to participate in the festival, which mainly features student talents...
...DIED. Potter Stewart, 70, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1958-1981) who became the crucial "swing man" in the Warren Court era (1953-69) and remained a careful centrist who avoided sweeping principles and ideological stances; after a stroke; in Hanover, N.H. He balanced general support for civil rights with opposition to affirmativeaction programs, belief in a vigorous press with a dislike of pornography. In his most famous opinion, he said in 1964 that he could not define such hard-core material, "but I know it when...
With the current talk of appointments to the Court, there will be arguments over questions like abortion, judicial restraint, potential justices' intellectual abilities, and ideology in general. Absent will be the quiet sense, character, and integrity for which Potter Stewart will not be forgotten...