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...former vice president of external investments at HMC revamped Wellesley’s investment strategy, creating its first investment office, and helped the school’s endowment earn an average annual return of 13.5 percent during her five-year tenure. Wellesley’s investments grew by almost a quarter in 2007 and nearly matched HMC’s results...
...months ago, Harvard’s bid to restore stability to HMC suffered a setback when Meyer’s predecessor Mohamed A. El-Erian announced plans to return to lead a private investment company after a brief 22-month tenure...
...crews have cleaned up some of the streets, but the area remains uninhabited; more than 160,000 New Orleans evacuees never came home. Many of the affected areas were among the city’s poorest, and for many former residents, it is simply not worth the cost to return. And so their detritus remains on full display to tourists, a still life. “Despite billions of dollars in aid, recovery programs with catchy names, and an outpouring of volunteer effort, New Orleans is not recovering from Hurricane Katrina,” wrote Associated Press correspondent Brian Schwaner...
After nearly four years of hoping and praying for his safe return, the parents of the nation's first soldier listed as missing in action in the Iraq war said their son's remains have been found in Iraq. An Army general visited the couple in a Cincinnati suburb Sunday afternoon to give Carolyn and Keith Maupin the sad news about their son, Sergeant Matt Maupin. "Matt is coming home," his father said. "He's completed his mission...
...draconian practices and human rights abuses, is also remembered for bringing order following the excesses of rival commanders in the country's civil war. Crime was punished - brutally and in excess, yes, but visibly and uniformly. If the Taliban and the insurgents can convincingly offer civilians a return to law and order, they will gain support. The Afghan government may realize that it's better to take a page from their book - tempered with human rights and due process - than to be defeated by an inability to crush corruption...