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...RALPH R. VAN HOUTEN, LIMA...
...Theodore R. Pak ’09 is currently under investigation in connection with the false documents and is away from school, according to a student who is close...
This fall, as Boris R. T. Van ’08 considered his post-graduation employment plans, Citigroup—where Van had worked this summer and had an offer to return—was in the process of ousting its CEO and announcing at least $8 billion in writedowns, part of the fallout of this summer’s credit meltdown.But Van says that despite a media blitz that chronicled the firm’s every move into what appeared to be dangerous waters, the public relations disaster never played a role in his decision...
...ballooning size of university coffers, some legislators have sought to require that educational institutions spend at least 5 percent of their endowment annually. “The donations to those endowments and the endowments themselves are all tax-exempt,” said Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), who has championed the 5 percent mandate, in a statement Monday. “American taxpayers are subsidizing that tax-exemption, and they deserve public benefit in return.” Yale previously targeted an endowment payout rate of 5.25 percent and Harvard currently aims for 5 percent, but both universities...
Germany just can't get enough of little polar bears, but its zookeepers seem unsure about how best to deal with them. Earlier this week the country's tabloid press agonized over the deaths of two tiny Eisbär cubs in a Nuremberg zoo, who were presumably eaten by their inexperienced mother, Vilma, after zookeepers decided not to intervene. Then on Wednesday, a fresh round of photographs and videos revealed that a third cub at the same zoo had been "rescued" by zookeepers after another mother, Vera, showed signs of rejecting her offspring. "Sweet, sweeter, sweetest!" cooed the daily...