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Thursday, September 21, 2006
THIS AND THAT... ...as UD races out the door to 'thesda's Montgomery Mall, where she'll do her annual dash-through to get presentable clothes for the academic year. Longtime readers know that this event always ends with a worried call from UD's credit card company, in which she's warned that a thief has been dashing through Montgomery Mall using her card... *** I Dismember Mama Shannon Chamberlain writes a fine and balanced appraisal of recent books about the Mommy Wars. *** Date Change The article about Rate My Professors in which UD's excellent insights (not that she remembers any of them - it was a phone interview) appear comes out the 27th, not the 26th. *** New York Times Business Writer's Long National Nightmare Over For the last few months, UD's been haunted by the anxieties about Harvard's financial future that Joseph Nocera shared in his article titled "Harvard Punishes Success." Mourning the departure of all of Harvard's money men because the university slapped an unconscionable ceiling of $20 million on each man's take home pay (they'd been getting $35 million and were due to get more), Nocera predicted Harvard's endowment would go down the tubes as second-raters willing to work for chump change took over. Well Joe - and all of us - can heave a sigh of relief! The mendicants now running the show did great! The endowment's up to 30 billion! Sixty billion, here we come! |