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James F. Rothenberg, the University treasurer, would not rule out yesterday the possibility of moving to entirely external management of the endowment. Most universities, including Yale, which maintains the second-largest endowment in higher education, employ such a model...
...sold will be able to play digital music. "I wouldn't quite say music on mobile phones is shaping up to be a killer application, but I would say it's a manslaughter app," says Neil Mawston, an analyst for Strategy Analytics. Need further validation? Motorola, the world's second-largest cell-phone maker, recently announced it will include Apple's iTunes software on its next series of phones...
Most of Harvard’s peer institutions have yet to publicly release their endowment figures for fiscal year 2004, but the University is sure to remain billions of dollars ahead of even its nearest competitors. Yale University maintains the second-largest endowment in higher education, with a market value last reported at $11 billion...
Iraqis have a strong sense of irony - every discussion about politics or economics in this country seems to begin with a sardonic or mordant observation: Isn't it odd that a nation with the world's second-largest oil reserves should also have mile-long queues at gas stations? Isn't it strange that the Americans, who made such a big deal of Saddam Hussein's treatment of prisoners, brutalized their own Iraqi captives in Abu Ghraib...
...Mandalay might be Burma's second-largest city, but its community of democrats is small and easily terrorized. A local NLD leader was jailed for five years for seeing a foreign reporter. I arrived in Mandalay to news that Win Mya Mya, a prominent NLD member who had had both arms broken in the Black Friday attack, had been shifted from a military hospital to a prison cell at nearby Shwebo. Her relatives were still forbidden...