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...First, the University must stop pulling a bait-and-switch on donors who wish to give to initiatives that will directly benefit undergraduate life. It is not acceptable to tempt donors with the promise of improving the undergraduate experience and then use their generosity to finance unrelated activities. In the future, the Harvard College Fund should do a better job of advertising itself for what it is—an fund to be spent at the discretion of the FAS dean on FAS-wide initiatives. If the HCF continues to be administered by FAS dean and used for such purposes...
...authorities hoped the rate increase would tempt small investors to keep money in the bank rather than dump it into an overpriced equity market, they're likely to be disappointed. Savings accounts in China yield about 3%. With annual inflation running at about the same rate, that's no return at all. "Bank savings are ridiculous," snapped Li Gongren, a 55-year-old retired businessman, while he was loitering in a Shanghai brokerage office this week. "Why would you put your money in the bank and make nothing when you can make money in stocks...
...games. Nor will Beckham be alone among waning stars in crossing the Atlantic: His deal was made possible by change in MLS rules to allow each team to sign one player outside of the limits of an existing salary cap that prevented Americans teams from offering rewards that would tempt many European stars...
...first seems false. but things are never what they seem" - could be a useful guide for visitors to the retrospective, which opens this week. Seeing Arkley isn't as easy as his work makes it look. His distinctive "after-spray" outlines over fields of kinetic patterning and color constantly tempt the eye to shift focus; figurative becomes abstract and vice versa; painting and sculpture merge...
...cats come and eat it, whose fault is it--the cats' or the uncovered meat?" SHEIK TAJ ALDIN AL HILALI, Muslim cleric in Australia, implying in a sermon that it would be the fault of an unveiled woman if she was raped because her lack of a covering would tempt...