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...Japan the obliteration of Hiroshima did not at first yield conclusive results. Japanese scientists assessing the Hiroshima damage doubted that the Americans could possibly have harvested enough radioactive material to make more than a few bombs. It was even likely, they said, that Hiroshima was a one-off stunt that could not be repeated. (This deprecation of the magnitude of the U.S. Bomb program suggests how ineffective a demonstration would have been.) Only after the Soviet declaration of war against Japan on Aug. 8 and the second nuclear attack on Nagasaki on Aug. 9 did Emperor Hirohito, in an exceedingly...
...other colleges, participation in a summer program could offer a student the chance to demonstrate his or her dedication to the college, which is important for schools trying to increase their yield rate (the percentage of accepted students who matriculate into the institution...
This consideration is less important for Harvard, the national yield-rate leader. Harvard College Admissions Director Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73 says Harvard does not take previously demonstrated affinity into account in making its admissions decisions...
...netting a 2004 surplus of nearly €3.1 million. Meanwhile, assets managed by the Church of England's Church Commissioners have fattened to $7.6 billion as its investment portfolio - which helps pay for priest pensions - continues to outperform the market. In March this year, London church officials hailed a yield of 13.6% for 2004, putting the fund in the top 3% of more than 700 similar British pension funds measured by the WM All Funds Universe benchmark. While Louis Henderson, spokesman for the Church Commissioners, is proud that the Church of England's portfolio is free of such sinful enterprises...
...been having increasing problems scraping together the $400 monthly rent. He expects to get through this summer on donations, but, he says: "Come the fall, the entire archive just might have to go. The landlords have been nice enough, but the market is the market, and this apartment may yield a better rent." Prominent Russians, such as writer Yevgeny Pasternak, son of Boris Pasternak, and Irina Arkhipova, president of the International Music Union, have called upon the public to help, but no financial savior has yet emerged. "No memory survives without the material evidence," says Matsov, gravely...