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...Professors stood three-deep at the doors on both sides of the room and some sat on the floor at a meeting held just one day after the Faculty’s top deans sent a letter to department chairs freezing the salaries of all FAS professors and announcing a hold on the majority of the searches for new Faculty...
...part of the gap that the Faculty is unable to make up will come out of the FAS reserves, which stood at $138 million on July 1, but are largely invested in the now-deflated endowment...
...flew by helicopter from Helmand to the enormous NATO base outside Kandahar to learn that three Canadian soldiers had been killed that morning in an ambush. I stood in a small, bare concrete plaza as the Canadian flag was raised, then lowered to half-staff. Next the Danish flag and finally the NATO flag were raised and left to rest at half-staff. A small group of soldiers from assorted countries stood at attention and saluted as the flags rose and fell. There were no American flags this day, but there soon will...
...Person of the Year.) A friend of mine in Hong Kong describes what is happening in China today like this: Think of a quarter of the world's population - with all its good and bad, beauty and ugliness - rejoining the mainstream of human development after centuries when it stood to the side...
...Aneliese stood out because she’s compassionate, she’s friendly, and she’s good with children,” he says, adding that regardless of Palmer’s youth, “she’s a maverick...