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...successfully under President Neil L. Rudenstine. In choosing a permanent president and FAS dean, however, Harvard cannot continue to turn to the successful leaders of the past. When it comes time to decide Harvard’s next generation of leaders, the stronger choices may very well be the riskier ones...
...this system, too. For example, hooking up with Cheddar is like winning your conference tournament and getting an automatic bid to the big dance. In other words, mad carefree and fun. Hooking up with you or Catizone would be more like an at-large bid: a little riskier but with the potential for greatness. BL: Yeah, I’m like the Wichita State Shockers, a real dark horse. But some people like a dark horse. Just look at Black Beauty. CT: Good one, you chach. BL: Last question: What would make you most elated and most depressed in this...
...also show an increase in the number of births among teenage mothers, in this case 17 1/2 year-olds. But the study has some disturbing news for supporters of the notification laws: 17-year-olds in the study had a higher rate of second-trimester abortions, which are both riskier and more ethically charged than abortions done in the early weeks of pregnancy...
Presidents of the U.S. don't get scared. They get security. But if the murder of an American diplomat in Karachi last week underlined the fact that George W. Bush was on one of his riskier foreign trips, the President was probably unaware he was skirting not two conflict zones - Afghanistan and Pakistan - but three. In India, Bush toured the southern city of Hyderabad to praise an example of everything that's right about the nation. Like its neighbor Bangalore, this ancient Muslim fort town is a hub for science and technology. But Hyderabad is also an example of what...
...years would lower your monthly payments, but you may not save so much as you would expect. Let's say you had a $200,000, 30-year mortgage at 6% interest. Your monthly payment would be $1,199. Since lenders consider a 40-year mortgage a bit riskier, they usually charge an additional 0.25% in interest. So that $200,000 loan would probably carry a rate of 6.25%, making for a monthly payment of $1,135. Total savings: only $64 a month. And because of that 40-year loan's higher interest rate, you would pay about $3,486 more...