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...resources committee and the FAS financial staff “talked through” whether to borrow annually or withdraw a lump sum and chose the latter, Campbell said, because they expected the endowment to grow faster than the interest rate on debt. University President Lawrence H. Summers told the Faculty at its meeting last week that the Corporation—the University’s highest governing body—has approved the decapitalization “in recognition of what is by the FAS an extraordinary period of growth...
...close of World War II, the Soviet Union had a huge predominance in the number of troops stationed at the edge of Western Europe. For a time, the U.S. had the advantage of nuclear weapons, but not for long. Franklin Roosevelt once assured Stalin that the U.S. would withdraw from Europe within two years after Hitler was defeated. Instead, faced with the need to protect weakened Western democracies, the U.S. would embark on the Marshall Plan, a bid to make Europeans prosperous enough fast enough to keep them from turning communist, and initiate NATO, its first transatlantic alliance since...
...says Judith Orloff, a Los Angeles psychiatrist and author, is for actors to learn techniques they can use to immerse themselves in their characters and then withdraw. "I have a client who is playing a character in a TV series who has cancer," she says. "When she came into my office, she looked like she had cancer herself." Orloff developed breathing exercises and meditation routines to help the actress move fluidly in and out of character. "Creative people need to work at remaining sensitive, while shutting out negativity," says Orloff...
...that dismissal were kept private. Generally, FAS administrators and professors do not publicly comment on dismissals in cases that do not involve previous legal action. Dismissal is the fourth of five levels of disciplinary action that can be taken against students in the FAS; warnings, probations, and requirements to withdraw are less serious actions, while expulsion is more serious. Students may be required to withdraw by the Administrative Board, the main disciplinary body at the College, and most students who are required to withdraw are eventually allowed to be readmitted. Dismissals and expulsions, however, are used for more serious offenses...
...Palestinian people and had dedicated his life to repressing their struggle for self-determination. But neither side could have anticipated the final act in the political life of Ariel Sharon, who had for decades championed the establishment of Israeli settlements. As prime minister, Sharon’s decision to withdraw settlers completely from the Gaza Strip and from parts of the West Bank—even once using the politically charged word “occupation” to describe the Israeli presence in some areas—represented a significant and welcome evolution in his philosophy. The decision...