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...current standards for foundations and other charities that receive tax-exemptions. Harvard sets five percent as its payout goal, but it has exceeded that mark only once in the past 10 years. This is in large part due to consistently high investment returns, as the five percent target is based on a projected endowment growth rate of eight percent, which the last decade of returns has proven to be a conservative projection. Last year, governmental pressure led top Harvard officials to encourage deans to come up with programs to up spending through the use of strategic payouts and decapitalizations...
...Change, Michael Brown of City Year and John Bridgeland of Civic Enterprises. Joining me as co-chairs are Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York; Alma Powell, who runs America's Promise Alliance; Bill Novelli, CEO of AARP; Laysha Ward, president of Community Relations and the Target Foundation; and Caroline Kennedy, whose father framed the mission best: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country...
...right to invade Pakistan in pursuit of suspected terrorists, she didn't hold back. "In order to stop Islamic extremists, we must do whatever it takes; and we must not blink, Charlie, in making those tough decisions of where we go and even who we target...
...moment of his papacy, a provocative discourse at the University of Regensburg about how faith and reason can, and must, coexist. Though the Sep. 12, 2006 speech is best remembered for its citation of a Byzantine emperor's insults of the prophet Muhammed, which sparked Muslim outrage, the intended target of the Pope's words were the increasingly secularized Europeans...
...more problems. Pakistani tolerance is diminishing for civilian casualties inflicted by a foreign army pursuing its own agenda. Clearly, the U.S. needs to hone its intelligence-gathering capabilities to do a better job of avoiding civilian casualties, while the Pakistani leadership - if it is to avoid becoming the target of a backlash - needs to question whether its best interests are served by being seen to impotently condemn every U.S. air strike aimed at a militant of al-Qaeda, rather than by seeking to convince its public that the targets of these raids are also enemies of Pakistan...