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...oversized homes to buy colossal TVs. But you may have heard less about another commodity we binged on: justice. Americans indulged in an enormous criminal-justice spending spree during the past 25 years, locking up more and more offenders (particularly for drug-related crimes) for longer and longer sentences. Total spending on incarceration rose from $39 per U.S. resident in 1982 to $210 per resident in 2006, according to the most recent figures from the Justice Department. We now spend $62 billion a year on corrections, and about 500 of every 100,000 Americans are behind bars. As recently...
...book Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, American art detective Robert Edsel tells the little-known story of the men and women who worked to stop that dream from becoming reality. During and after World War II, a total of 365 volunteers in the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives section of the Allied Forces dedicated themselves to recovering Europe's pillaged treasures. Without vehicles of their own, these so-called Monuments Men - mostly middle-aged art historians, curators and museum directors - hitchhiked through Europe following clues they gleaned from, among other things, conversations...
Here are the final figures as of Sept. 7 for the Top 10 summer movies - each with domestic gross, foreign gross and worldwide total, respectively - in millions...
...laying the ball back to Akpan, who fired past Alexander. Akpan has now scored four goals in four games—a great start to his campaign to be named the nation’s top collegiate player. Harvard continued to create opportunities until the final whistle, taking a total of 35 shots over the course of the game. “Athletically, our attacking players separated themselves today,” Clark said. “In one v. one situations, they looked like they would come out on top every time.” Whereas Harvard was often...
...departments will be asked to cut non-salary spending by 5 percent—on top of a 7.5 percent reduction announced in February—salary-related budget allocations will not be subject to further cuts. In April, Yale administrators said that no more than 100 of the total 9,000 non-faculty employees would be laid off. Harvard has laid off 275 employees, out of a staff of 13,000. The so-called Yale model of endowment management—characterized by significant exposure to nontraditional, illiquid asset classes including private equity—has come under attack...