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...Inflating Football Salaries I was flabbergasted to learn the sum of sponsorship money pocketed annually by the Premier League, National Basketball Association and National Football League [May 7]. The salaries of top players are augmented the same way. The majority of us would take a lifetime to make the amount of money these players earn in just one week. It is truly astonishing. I wonder whether they deserve such large sums. Wouldn't the money be better spent combatting poverty, global warming, AIDS? The list goes on and on. Lee Boon Siew, KUALA LUMPUR...
...great temptation,” Clinton said, “is to believe that the one-tenth of one-percent of you that is different and which brought you here [to Harvard]...is really the sum...
...sum of these effects is that Harvard is graduating fewer science concentrators than it ought to. The exact number of defections is difficult to finger, but Harvard’s own published numbers can give a rough sense. Many students enter Harvard expressing an interest in concentrating in science—Harvard news releases from the past few years state that just under half of matriculating students are prospective life science, physical science, mathematics, engineering, or computer science concentrators. Meanwhile, a tabulation of data in this year’s Handbook for Students shows that just over a quarter...
...others, like Michael Lee-Chin, the billionaire chairman of Portland Holdings, who gave $30 million to put his name on the addition, came through precisely because there was something new on the horizon. So far the museum has raised $228 million toward its goal of $240 million, a sum that covers both Libeskind's new building and extensive renovations to the galleries of the old museum...
Gettelfinger has long argued that the best way to cut automakers' costs without shafting workers would be to move to government-run universal health care. Another possibility, pioneered last year by tiremaker Goodyear: paying the union a lump sum to take over retiree health care for good. But health-care reform won't come for a couple of years, if ever, and for automakers that lump sum would be staggering. So it's hard to see how Detroit can avoid a major showdown this summer. Road Race. The Fight for the U.S. Market [This article contains a complex diagram. Please...