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...budget deficit—which in the past was cited as a temporary result of increased construction—is now, according to Knowles, a structural deficit, meaning that it is a result of permanent (not temporary) spending. This is largely the result of an increase in the size of the Faculty, which has grown by 84 professors to 719 in the past four years, and the maintenance costs of Harvard’s new buildings. As a result, Knowles projects that FAS will have a growing budget deficit in the next four years. In the year 2010, FAS will...
...long bus ride into London's mixed-race slums to tell the backstory of the kids who killed Her Ladyship. The hero of this tale is an 11-year-old boy named Joel, who has a retarded brother, an oversexed sister and a face covered by tea-cake-size splotches--"a physical expression of the ethnic and racial battle" raging in his blood. George, a U.S. writer whose British-style mysteries were becoming a bit formulaic, took a gamble with this one, and it pays off brilliantly...
...models who are too thin has started a pointed conversation. If pressure is put on models, it may find its way up to designers and magazine photographers. The emphasis on skinny bodies is demeaning to women and encourages anorexia and bulimia. I know healthy women who are a size 4 or 6 and nonetheless diet to try to look like models. That is not good for anyone. When was the last time you saw men starving themselves to death for a career...
...miles from the border and has always lived under the threat of immediate destruction from North Korean firepower. Says a senior U.S. military officer: "[It is] within easy and rapid range of perhaps 10,000 artillery tubes with a 57-second flight time. That can cause World War II--size casualties." And that's without nuclear weapons. Now, unless the U.S. goes back to the bargaining table and somehow entices North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons--something most experts believe is unlikely--deterrence and containment become even more important. "The tactical game with North Korea--trying...
...Texas-Size Race for Governor Thanks to an unusually crowded field, Governor Rick Perry will probably win reelection - but he may not have much to celebrate