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...home team's fans, who alternated between long, head-ache-inducing horn blasts and renditions of La Marseillaise. The small British delegation hung T shirts over the rail printed with the encouragement ALLEZ LES ROSBIFS. With nearly 50 people, the U.S. fielded its largest delegation ever. "Last time, our uniform was a sweatshirt that my wife ironed U.S.A. decals onto," says Gavin Kaysen, who competed in the 2007 Bocuse. Now dressed in one of the sleek, matching jackets printed with the words JE T'AIME U.S.A. sported by team members and their supporters, he marveled at how much more support...
...where clergy are trying out several innovative ways to keep God in the heartland. The fertile, Scandinavian-settled farm towns in the Red River Valley were the models for Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon; for decades, thousands of farmers comfortably worked 80-acre lots and prayed in small, ethnically uniform churches. But starting in the 1970s, Wobegon was hit with sinking commodity prices and job-cutting farm technology, a combo that sharply reduced the population. Churches foundered. But only in the past few years have people like Haythorn and Wolpert begun experimenting with new ways to counter the trend...
Known as the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, the legislation would aid universities by eliminating the “historic dollar value” rule currently in effect in Massachusetts. The rule, a product of legislation dating from the 1970s, prevents institutions from spending from a particular endowment fund if its value falls “underwater”—below levels pegged to a specific point in time, such as the donor’s date of death...
...UPMIFA would not allow affected institutions to spend freely from underwater funds, it would offer some breathing room—giving a place like Harvard “more flexibility to spend money for its core purposes,” according to Michael R. Kerr, legislative director for the Uniform Law Commission, which drafted UPMIFA...
...Uniform Law Commission held a meeting in 2008 with officials from various universities to discuss the legislation, according to Kerr. Kerr said officials from several area schools including Emerson, Tufts, Boston College, and Harvard expressed interest in receiving materials and additional information, but he was unsure if they attended the conference in person. In interviews with The Crimson, Harvard officials have not acknowledged any familiarity with the legislation...