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...political personalities, former Presidents Bush and Clinton, who can work together on a wide range of issues for the common good. Those two exhibited mutual respect, unselfish behavior, kindly affection and dignified civility rarely seen in or out of government. They give an impressive example of comity in a realm in which divisiveness and partisanship rule on many fronts...
...this incident an opportunity for reflection. Most of us board airplanes—and carry out countless other mildly dangerous tasks every day—without thinking twice about the risks involved. We like to think that the tragedies we witness on the news take place in a separate realm of existence, far from the impressive Ivory Tower and the invincible Harvard student. But in this new year, let’s remember that even in our seemingly impregnable world of airbags and antibacterial soap, planes malfunction, cars crash, and silent epidemics propagate in the most unsuspecting populations. Even though...
...into the budget on top of the normal annual payout.In addition to decapitalization, the committee’s plan emphasized a more concerted and aggressive fundraising effort, which they said would raise an extra $15–$19 million in 2010. Increased financial support from the University, in the realm of $18–$23 million, would also help pay for the deficit.At the meeting, top administrators were quick to tie the budget deficits—which could exhaust the Faculty’s reserves by 2008, according to the committee report—to a period of rapid expansion...
Reason: Pluto, astronomers have learned, is no oddball. It's one of thousands of icy bodies in a diskshape swarm known as the Kuiper Belt that orbits the sun in the dark, frigid realm beyond Neptune. Since the discovery last summer of an object called 2003 UB313, Pluto is not even the biggest. And because those little worlds have been in deep freeze since the solar system was formed more than 4 billion years ago, they represent a frozen record of what conditions were like back then...
...prices drop sharply, causing a shortfall in the state budget. Putin also argues that, as the world's top natural-gas exporter and a leading oil producer, Russia needs to keep tight control on energy to ensure security of supply. "Russia must aspire to claim world leadership in the realm of energy," he told his Security Council late last month. Russia even justifies the Ukrainian gas price increases by saying that it is simply demanding a long-overdue market rate. Moreover, Putin is taking steps to ensure that Russia remains in favor with international investors. On Dec. 23, he signed...