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...their letters announcing the downsizing last week, University President Drew G. Faust and Vice President for Human Resources Marilyn Hausammann wrote that 275 employees from throughout the University would be laid off in the coming days, split evenly between union and non-union staff. But Jaeger said he thought the announcement seemed somewhat premature and that even today he was not sure how administrators arrived at that precise number...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FAS Lays Off 77 Staffers | 7/3/2009 | See Source »

...there a solution to California's dilemma? A number of reforms are receiving attention. On the tax and budget side, these include eliminating the need for a two-thirds majority vote on budget and tax matters and instituting a split-roll for property taxes that would allow homeowners to continue to pay according to the low rates mandated by Proposition 13, but require commercial property to be assessed at market value. To relieve the logjam in California politics, momentum is growing for an open primary system, in which the two top vote getters in the primary, regardless of party, would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California's Budget Crisis: Is There a Way Out? | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

...recent University human resources report, 19 staff members out of 59 eligible employees accepted buyout packages at HKS. University spokesman Kevin Galvin has said in the past that the average participant in the University's buyout program had an annual salary of $67,000 and that the reductions were split half-and-half between hourly employees and administrative and professional staff...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HKS Cuts 18 Staffers To Close Budget Gap | 6/30/2009 | See Source »

...overturning Sotomayor's ruling, the high court's conservatives split in tone. In a concurring opinion joined by Justices Thomas and Scalia, Justice Samuel Alito criticized the Second Circuit, saying the claims by Ricci and the other firefighters were never sufficiently considered by the lower courts and that those courts had therefore denied them "evenhanded enforcement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Court's Firefighter Ruling Means for Sotomayor | 6/30/2009 | See Source »

...married future Six Million Dollar Man Lee Majors and became Farrah Fawcett-Majors - one of those celebrity name changes (Rebecca Romijn Stamos, Meredith Baxter Birney) that virtually guarantee the couple will split. She and Majors separated in 1979 and divorced three years later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farrah Fawcett: The Golden Girl Who Didn't Fade | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

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