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Citing booming wealth at universities across the country even as college tuition continues to rise, the U.S. Senate is considering ways to regulate university endowments. The move brought a rebuke from Harvard, which insisted that Congress should not dictate how university funds are spent. At a Finance Committee hearing on Wednesday, senators considered measures including the repeal of university endowments’ tax-exempt status and mandating minimum yearly payouts to help lower tuition costs. The discussion at last week’s hearing focused on the spectacular growth of university endowments, which collectively increased by 17.7 percent to dollars...
...likely - the median - temperature increase: 2.6 degrees C or 4.7 degrees F. Now it might get warmer than that. But it also might be cooler than that. This is the most likely outcome, what most people call the business-as-usual scenario. Likewise when I say "a one-foot rise in sea level," the U.N. says it's somewhere between half and 2 feet. It seems to me that saying 20, as Al Gore famously said, is cherry-picking...
...shooting deaths up nearly 60% over last year, from 34 in 2006 to 54 this year (the worst year for such killings was 1975, when there were 99 deaths in the same period). Not only are officer shootings up, but the number of multiple deaths is also on the rise this year, says memorial fund president Craig Floyd. In the first nine months of 2007 there were six cases of more than one officer gunned down during the same shooting spree, up from just one in all of last year...
...technical innovation and hilarious writing, Maria’s tale of living at home after a series of career failures describes clinical depression in such a frank, open way that you’d be heartless if you didn’t feel a deep, cathartic belly laugh rise from your guts. Catch her before she’s famous.PUBLIC SCORN INDEX: 0.5%—Staff writer Abe J. Riesman can be reached at riesman@fas.harvard.edu...
...Today, with the rise of undemocratic powers like Russia and China, Europe as a whole has little time for endlessly rotating presidencies, over-bureaucratized central institutions, or, even worse, a half-hearted foreign policy. It needs further coordination with which to augment its power, in order to guarantee the survival of the democratic values now coded in the requirements for membership. Europe needs a constitution, which today means voting for the reform treaty...