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Harvard's Endowment Drops Sharply Amid Recession

AP | BOB SALSBERG | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home

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BOSTON — The total value of Harvard's endowment plunged nearly 30 percent in the last fiscal year as the Ivy League institution's portfolio was ...

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Friday Talking Points [92] -- The End Of Silly Season

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Sadly, Obama's speech to school children has become mired in manufactured controversy from the right, with typical sky-is-falling rhetoric about the evil, evil man who occupies the Oval Office.

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 04.06.2009 | World

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The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Pakistan's Civil War? Facts: Gunmen attack the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, Pakistan on Tuesday and...

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Obama, Brown Meeting: What's So 'Special' About US-UK Relations?

The Independent | Rupert Cornwell | Posted 04.03.2009 | World

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The odd British ambassador in Washington revels in it. But most cringe when they hear the expression, and at least one has tried to ban it. None, howe...

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Reading The Pictures: It's Nice To See A Brown Girl Get Some Attention

Michael Shaw | Posted 12.25.2008 | Media

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2008-11-24-newsweek_mobama.jpgI thought it was quite contradictory -- and a lost opportunity -- that Newsweek's cover was black-and-white ... and Michelle is so (bathed in) light.

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Friday Talking Points [52] -- What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

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I started blogging over two years ago. That is to say, right about the time the 2008 presidential campaign began. OK, that's a bit of an exaggeration...

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Gordon Brown's Trumpet

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business

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The first sound was a muffled rat-a-tat as the rise in housing prices in the first half of the millennium's new decade triggered concern about a bubbl...

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Sam Stein

Ivy League Faculty Giving Democratic, More Heavily Than Ever

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Professors and administrators at the nation's top colleges are supporting Democratic candidates during the 2008 campaign at a rate higher than the his...

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