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...world. I don’t see why athletics should be an exception here. Through its history, Harvard has traditionally been an athletic power in certain sports, such as hockey, squash, and rowing, and its academic reputation has certainly not suffered because of this. Take a school like Stanford, which is widely renowned for being a powerhouse in many big time Division 1 sports, including basketball, baseball and football, probably the three most widely competitive sports nationally. All the while, the Cardinal maintains an elite national reputation and lofty academic standards. It clearly can be done. Simply look...
...Such times complicate the standard central-bank playbook - which includes the seminal Taylor Rule. Proposed by Stanford economics professor John Taylor in the early 1990s, the Taylor Rule provides a formula for raising and lowering policy rates based on two variables: whether inflation is above or below the central bank's target, and whether economic growth is above or below its "full employment" potential. If inflation is at target and the economy is operating at full employment, then the Taylor Rule says that the central bank should set the overnight interest rate at a fixed "neutral" level, which Taylor estimated...
...Stanford Medical School Professor Robert K. Jackler, who recently lectured at the event, said he hopes to increase public awareness about how the tobacco industry deceived the public during the first half of the twentieth century...
...releasing vast amounts of sulfurous debris into the atmosphere to create a haze that would keep the planet cool. "Over the past couple of years, it's gone from an outsider thing to something that is increasingly discussed," says Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University...
These two schools are the last of the so-called “Ivy-Plus” colleges, comprised of the eight Ivy League schools plus Stanford and MIT, to substantially expand financial aid after Harvard announced in November that it would limit parental contribution for educational expenses to 10 percent of income for families who earn below $180,000 a year...