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Whether China Construction Bank and its developing-world brethren are actually willing and able to increase their international presence is an unanswered question. But the numbers indicate their relative financial strength certainly offers them the option...
...since donors are in effect relinquishing the control they normally exercise over their contributions to the University. “[Donors] want their money to go to things that they really care about,” Mark Hissey ’84 explains, adding that donors do not necessarily question the responsibility of University leaders—instead, an inherent level of suspicion arises when giving to what some perceive as a “slush fund.”Fundraising numbers for the current fiscal year are not yet available, and the numbers for May and June?...
...This is an important question to ask, because steroids and study drugs are only the beginning. For now, we can cite concerns of safety when outlawing performance-enhancing substances—in the future, it may not be so easy. A new generation of enhancers is on the horizon that will make the current batch look like child’s play. Powerful genetic therapies like IGF-I injections and myostatin blockers promise to fuel the athletes of tomorrow with few negative consequences. Meanwhile, with geneticists identifying correlates of mental attributes and millions of research dollars being poured into drugs...
...It’s a question left hanging over the Faculty, as its leadership struggles to confront an unprecedented budgetary quagmire. The concern reverberates all the more as the school finds itself in the hands of unseasoned administrators—unfamiliar with the sort of fiscal magicking needed to unite a disparate and confused Faculty behind deep budget cuts...
...fighters killed "strikes at the core of the enemy's perceptual dominance," he says. All of a sudden, Scales suggests, the Taliban may no longer be sure that God is on their side. "That's an essential argument in an Islamist country," he adds, "and they may start to question the whole theocratic underpinnings of their movement." That's assuming people in Afghanistan will believe what they're being told by a foreign army. And that the return of body counts doesn't have the opposite effect, causing Americans to begin questioning the underpinnings of a war that has lasted...