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...could have predicted that foot scrubbers would bring big change to a small village in Pakistan? Ann Thariani's fascination with handcrafted terra-cotta foot scrubbers began when she lived in Karachi with her Pakistani architect husband Kumy and led them to start a company, Gilden Tree. Sales of the product skyrocketed, but the women who made the scrubbers were not the only beneficiaries. The Tharianis decided to pay to educate the women's offspring, with one challenging stipulation: the girls, who often stay at home in rural Pakistan, had to go to school with the boys. "Everything Gilden Tree...
...practice of providing certain projects with further increases was first implemented in the current fiscal year, 2006. This year’s incremental payout is being used, in large part, to fund additional faculty and increases to financial aid, wrote Vice President for Finance Ann E. Berman in an e-mail last night...
President Bush awarded a Harvard Law School (HLS) professor with the National Humanities Medal at a ceremony at the White House last month. Mary Ann Glendon, the Learned Hand Professor of Law, was one of eleven individuals honored by Bush and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Originally called the Charles Frankel Prize, the National Humanities Medal is awarded annually to “individuals and organizations whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the humanities, broadened citizens’ engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand America’s access...
...University’s 68-page financial report.The report summarizes the University’s financial activities, offering a breakdown of its revenue and expenses.Benefits expenses last year rose a modest 3 percent, compared to increases of 36 percent in 2003 and 11 percent in 2004.Vice President for Finance Ann E. Berman attributed this slower growth to the introduction of a new Medicare drug benefit and a switch to self-insurance for medical benefits.But in an e-mail last night Berman wrote that despite this year’s more modest numbers, rising benefits costs are “still...
...School from 1975 to 1981, but she is not a major donor and has never served on any other Harvard committee.But after considering and rejecting other black females with stronger ties to the University—including Deborah C. Wright ’79, president of Carver Bancorp, and Ann M. Fudge ’77, chief executive of Young & Rubicam—the committee broadened its search to include King, according to the source.“I was approached and asked would I consider doing something like this,” King said. She was informed yesterday...