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Harvard officially targets 5-percent but has fallen short of the mark in all but one of the past 10 years. Its $1.6 billion payout rate this year—while the largest in University history—still did not break the five-percent threshold...
Propelled by concerns over the financial crisis and a return of support from female voters, Barack Obama has opened a formidable 7-point lead over John McCain, reaching the 50% threshold among likely voters for the first time in the general campaign for President, according to a new TIME poll...
...McCain, the most troubling sign may come not from the details of the poll, which are grim for Republicans, but from the historical context. No Democrat has crossed the 50% threshold in the general election since before Ronald Reagan was elected, let alone do so a month before the election...
...even starker abbreviation of a pitiless world. All through the '70s Bacon would flatten and simplify the spaces within which he put his liquid people. That made those places even colder and more clinical, and set off more sharply the wide passages of black he used as the threshold of mortality...
Many elite athletes have snubbed Harvard in the past, and many more will do so in the future. Still, all of these stories have some place in Harvard’s larger history. In one sense, they acknowledge an inherent limitation of Harvard athletics. We are stuck at the threshold of being a major athletic program—good enough to garner interest, but not to be a main attraction...