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...growth in the endowment has clearly benefited those who managed it. Since 1991, Bok’s final year as University president, their pay has risen 10 times faster than the endowment itself. Following his retirement, fund managers began receiving million-dollar bonuses. By 2000, those blossomed into eight-digit bonuses—two years ago topping $35 million paid to a single manager. Two months ago, Harvard announced $57 million in bonuses for six fund managers, five of whom no longer worked at Harvard...
...wage scale—or to restrain tuition increases and debt burdens imposed on students and their families. As the endowment has grown, one would think the economic burdens on students and their families would be alleviated. Not so. Every year since Bok’s retirement, tuition has risen by the rate of inflation only once. Every other year, it rose by substantially more than inflation—more than half the time, by at least twice inflation. Professional school tuitions have risen even faster...
...reporters who broke the domestic spy program story in December picked up Goldsmith awards for investigative journalism from the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy yesterday evening. In their controversial story on the secret National Security Agency spying program, James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of The New York Times revealed that the Bush administration had used illegal wiretaps to monitor the nation’s phone lines for terrorist activity. The Bush administration has vehemently denied any wrongdoing in the matter. “[The Goldsmith Awards] encourage a more insightful, spirited debate about public policy...
...Knight said the test score disparity persists despite the school system’s relatively generous expenditures. Cambridge Public Schools spent an average of $13,363 per regular education student last fiscal year, about $5,000 more than the national average. According to school officials, those figures have risen to over $16,000 for this fiscal year. Several students lauded the advantages of their school’s diversity.“We have people that are just coming into this country who are the poorest of the poor in the country, and the richest of the rich live down...
...weekend clothing line. Four years ago, the Della Valles bought the Fiorentina soccer team, a move that has made them famous in a whole new arena?especially among young boys. It helps that the team, which was at the bottom of the league when they bought it, has since risen in the standings. All of this, of course, started with shoes. And shoes still account for 70% of their business...