Word: returns
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...course, once the exam is over, we are far too tired to protest or even remember these people who seem to venture down from the outer reaches of the solar system in order to administer our finals. Yet every year, they return, renewing our faith that there is indeed life after college and that people exist in the universe who do not care about exams...
Second, when speaking of Radcliffe's endowment, no mention was made at how poorly it has been managed. The compounded 10 year return was 12 percent--among the worst (if not the worst) records of any endowment of comparable size. In the past three years alone (the only years for which Radcliffe shows these numbers), the endowment has underperformed its modest benchmark number by an average of more than three percentage points per year...
...peace process is on the back burner until Israel votes for a new government in June, although Hussein will spend time urging Yasser Arafat not to declare a Palestinian state before Israel's election. But Hussein's return was enough, Tuesday, to remind Israelis and Palestinians there are still things both can celebrate -- such as his longevity...
...proliferation of millennial doomsayers leaves mainstream denominations uneasy. The expectation of Christ's return is a fundamental tenet of Christian faith, so Pope John Paul II has been talking up the millennium for years--but as an opportunity for spiritual renewal, not as the estimated time of arrival for Christ's Second Coming. Many churches are worried that false predictions of the Second Coming will undermine the authority of biblical teachings generally. In October, bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America issued a pastoral letter to their 5 million members, dismissing "wild prophecies" and declaring that the third Christian...
Still, says a security source, "the most dangerous group so far is the Denver cult." Israeli authorities are afraid that undetected members may go underground. Last week the Concerned Christians were described by their lawyer as being nice people who, like other pious foreigners, were simply awaiting the return of Jesus. And, oh yes, they expect the U.S. to be destroyed by the end of the year...