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...Erian wrote in his first annual “John Harvard” letter. It is down from last year’s 19.2 percent return and the 21.1 percent return achieved in 2004. While few peer universities have released their endowment figures for fiscal year 2006, Stanford reported a 19.4 percent return for the same period, beating Harvard’s by 2.7 percentage points. Both universities handily outpaced the S&P 500 index, which registered an 8.5 percent return over the same period. “The most important issue is, did we meet the University?...
...face of overbearing precedent and potential detriment to the school.The admissions office and the College have taken several steps in recent years to make the undergraduate admissions process simpler and fairer for all students. Harvards’ early action system served as a model for Yale and Stanford when they switched to non-binding early action programs, and the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative for low-income students has also spurred other schools, especially Yale, to expand its financial aid packages.We hope that eliminating early admissions altogether proves to be as influential as some of Harvard’s past innovations...
...STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER...
...Stanford, Calif...
...than operating on the body's core, but the dividing lines between levels of anesthesia can be blurry. Once you get away from major surgery, pain control and sedation are often mixed and matched according to patient preference. Says Dr. Ronald Pearl, chairman of the department of anesthesia at Stanford: "It's not uncommon when we do a spinal anesthetic, say for knee surgery, to ask the patients whether they want to be awake or asleep for it." Those who choose sleep do so not because they want to avoid the pain--they won't be feeling it in either...