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This year's payout--a paltry 2.98 percent--is well below the University's oftstated goal of spending between 4 and 5 percent of the endowment each year on general operating expenses. While it is understandable that Mass. Hall wants to proceed with some caution, this is the lowest payout since 1987. And this tightfistedness comes at a time of unprecedented percentage endowment growth--a healthy 25.8 percent last year. This year's payout of $332.3 million is actually less than last year's when inflation is accounted for. The rising tide of consumer optimism seems not to have raised...
Rosenthal's letter made it clear, however, that "The American Cancer Society agrees with the public that human cloning should not proceed at this time...
...future coverage of this incident and in its coverage of sensitive issues in general, The Crimson needs to be more careful with the use of quotations, especially anonymous ones. The Crimson should recognize that anonymity tends to raise questions among readers about the responsibility and accuracy of coverage, and proceed accordingly...
...begin with sexual harassment. Last May, when the Supreme Court rejected President Clinton's claim that Paula Jones' sexual-harassment suit should be delayed until he left office, the Justices unanimously dismissed the President's claim that allowing the suit to proceed would generate unrelated litigation that might hamper his ability to do his job. The events of last week suggest that the court's optimism was misplaced...
Much of the problem stems from the elastic nature of sexual harassment itself, which is defined so expansively (it includes "unwanted advances" that create an "offensive working environment") that no one is quite sure what it means. After the court ordered the Jones case to proceed, President Clinton's lawyers made a plausible argument that her suit should be dismissed without a trial. Even assuming, for the sake of argument, that her allegations were true, the President's lawyers said they didn't add up to illegal harassment...