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Speaking just as a Harvard parent and a loyal Harvard alumnus, I think both the editorial (“In Safe Hands”) and the dissenting opinion (“Stop Matching Donations”) of Oct. 18 fail to identify the main reason why it is inappropriate for Harvard to donate to charities providing relief to the victims of natural disasters. Harvard really has no money of its own. It is merely the trustee for money given or paid to it for education and research, and funds resulting from reinvestment of such gifts and payments—funds...
...Seven, the movie on which they met, their marriage ended rather badly--with her head in a box--but in real life, GWYNETH PALTROW and BRAD PITT's future could not be any peachier. Pitt, alumnus of Kickapoo High School and son of a trucking company manager, and Paltrow, alumna of the rather more expensive Spence and daughter of director Bruce Paltrow and actress Blythe Danner, have announced their engagement--proving, perhaps, that a similar level of photogenic appeal outweighs differing backgrounds. No further details were forthcoming about the happy event, which has been much anticipated--and dreaded--by teenage...
...current Harvard students to pressure Marc J. Shapiro ’69, a member of the Kimberly-Clark Board of Directors, and Ken A. Strassner, the company’s vice-president for Environment and Energy, to make Kimberly-Clark use environmentally-friendly wood pulp. Though also an alumnus, Kimberly-Clark board member Robert W. Decherd ’73 is not a target of the activists, said Tyga J. Hunter, a Greenpeace volunteer. According to a report commissioned by Greenpeace, Kimberly-Clarke relies on recycled sources for just 19 percent of its wood pulp. Common Kimberly-Clarke brands?...
...highest honor HBS can bestow on an alumnus,” said Harvard Business School spokesman James E. Aisner ’68. “In some ways this is our honorary degree, our Oscar, our Emmy, whatever you want to call...
...Harvard College and Harvard Business School alumnus, who graduated into the teeth of the Vietnam War in 1968 when the draft was in effect, and who was forced to lie at that time about my sexual orientation in order to enlist in the U.S. Navy, I resent to this day that I was forced to be dishonest in order to serve our country. Please be vocal in working to allow all citizens to serve in the military without compromising personal integrity...