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...completely. Harvard often compares itself to peer institutions—and Stanford, which boasts the third largest university endowment, beat Harvard’s investment return by 2.7 percentage points this past year. Yale—whose endowment is the second-largest among universities, after Harvard—hasn’t released its 2006 numbers yet. But Yale’s rate of returns has consistently outpaced Harvard’s over the past two decades...
...anyone. He's a strategist." A hard-line nationalist or a soft-talking, sympathetic pragmatist; an LDP man to the core or someone who will continue the turn-the-world-upside-down instincts of his mentor Koizumi, Abe is preparing to take the leadership of the world's second-largest economy?and Asia's most advanced democracy?as an enigma, inside and outside his country...
...STEPPING DOWN. N.R. Narayana Murthy, 60, Chairman of Infosys Technologies, after 25 years at the helm of the company he helped found; in Bangalore. In 1981, Murthy and six other software engineers borrowed $250 from family members to start Infosys, today a $23 billion outsourcing giant and India's second-largest software company. Murthy, whose personal fortune is estimated at $1.2 billion, is leaving after reaching the firm's mandatory retirement age but will continue to serve as nonexecutive chairman. DIED. Joseph Hill, 57, socially conscious reggae guru who became one of the genre's first prominent voices; after falling...
...energy providers. Instead it has purchased "wind power credits" from a Boulder-based company called Renewable Choice Energy, which in turn pays wind farms throughout the country to produce electricity - enough to offset 211 million lbs. of carbon dioxide emissions each year. This purchase makes Vail the second-largest buyer of wind energy in the nation behind the supermarket super-chain Whole Foods, which went 100% wind power with their 458,000 megawatt-hours in January...
...advocates that only abundant species be harvested sustainably. Japan's commitment to whaling for scientific research is sincere and necessary to establish the proper conservation of whales. In fact, scientific knowledge from Japan has been highly commended by the International Whaling Commission's scientific committee. As the world's second-largest donor of official development assistance, Japan provides aid to developing countries regardless of their position on whaling. That Japan is using "bribery to get its way" is a completely false accusation. Jiro Okuyama, Director Japan Information Center Consulate General of Japan New York City...