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...number of Ph.D. applicants rises, the popularity of masters degree programs remains uncertain...
This is the source of our confidence - the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny...
...Monday night, a joint FBI/Homeland Security bulletin stated that law enforcement and intelligence officials had received information that people associated with a Somalia-based radical group, al-Shabaab, might try to travel to the U.S. in an effort to disrupt the Inauguration. The information had limited specificity and uncertain credibility, according to Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke. U.S. counter-terror officials have grown concerned in recent months about the threat posed by the militant al-Shabaab group and a cell of U.S.-based Somali sympathizers who have traveled to their homeland to "fight alongside Islamic insurgents," the alert reported...
...Many factors are dampening investors' enthusiasm, including recession-smitten corporate profits and the uncertain prospects for economic recovery. "If you believe that corporate profits have no chance to rise in the next two to three years, then you could argue that stock prices are still too expensive," says Masaaki Kanno, chief economist at JPMorgan Securities in Tokyo. "More importantly, you could argue that it's too risky to hold the stocks." Kanno says people have lost a sense of what's fair value for financial assets, including stocks and other risky assets; they prefer time deposits, risk-free investments...
Kagan’s imminent departure from the Law School coincides with an estimated 22 percent decline in the University’s endowment in a four-month period earlier this year. The Law School has not yet made public its budgetary outlook, and it is uncertain whether, as acting dean, Jackson will make an announcement regarding the impact of the shrinking endowment...