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...University announced today that the Loeb family has made a $70.5 million gift, the largest donation to Harvard ever from a living benefactor and the ninth largest in the history of higher education...
Silvera's research is funded by the Department of Energy, the United States Air Force and the National Science Foundation (NSF). But the government has lately become a less generous benefactor, Silvera says...
...Pinsky's translations, passion triumphs over literalness and the result is that Pinsky--the author of several poetry collections--reveals his true identity in his work: He is more a poet than a translator. The fruit of Pinsky's labor, a vivid and passionate Inferno, is the benefactor of this bias...
...least one child lived at Bethesda for 14 years, and stays of four or five years are not uncommon there and at similar institutions around the country. The trend's most adventurous examples are, coincidentally or not, in Illinois. Hephzibah Children's Association, named after a biblical benefactor, operates a small facility funded by the mostly well-to-do citizens of Oak Park; it accommodates children ages 3 to 11 for however long it takes them to be adopted, thus sparing them the foster-care shuffle. Even more unusual, it allows them to veto adoptive parents they don't like...
...records Clinton released last week go a long way toward eliminating suggestions that Mrs. Clinton profited from a form of trading that would have allowed a benefactor to "allocate" winning contracts in her account. The White House also released a statement from Leo Melamed, former chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which asserts that while Mrs. Clinton's account was "at times thinly margined" (meaning she sometimes lacked the deposits to cover potential losses), "nothing in these records appears to reflect any trading violations on the part of Mrs. Clinton...