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...investments are made "separately from the rest of the University's endowment," Brown said. Endowment investments "are planned in terms of 300 years" while gift investments are geared "more towards the benefactor's life span," he added...
...architectural atrocity is not modeled after a spider, or a lunar module, or any manner of unidentifiable creatures from outer space. It is actually an enlarged facsimile of a Polaroid Land Camera, honoring the man who donated a fortune to build the science center. A rare breed of benefactor, Land asked that the monstrosity not bear his name, so that no one could identify him as the donor...
...neither the Summa carbon nor the Mormon will is accepted by a court as authentic, Hughes' estate will be divided among his next of kin; the chief benefactor would be Hughes' only surviving aunt, Mrs. Frederick Lummis, 85, a Houston widow who is William's mother. Even after taxes, the Lummises would probably collect about $300 million apiece. Understandably, the family is eager to have Howard's last place of U.S. residence declared to be Nevada, since it has no state inheritance tax. Texas and California, which have such taxes, are claiming...
...white minority regimes in Southern Africa has been long, invidious and well-documented. Soviet aims for establishing its own sphere of influence in this region pose an unfamiliar menace, but one which is the principal issue to be reckoned with in the present Angolan conflict. As MPLA's ambitious benefactor, the Soviet Union saw forcing a military solution as a means of boosting the movement's dwindling influence, preventing a humiliating display at the polls and asserting Soviet control over this area of Africa. Many well-intentioned liberals and progressives point to the Soviet Union's longstanding support of liberation...
...Playwright Arthur Miller, the why of violence has always been dramatically crucial-whether it is a man's murder of his family benefactor (A View from the Bridge) or the suicides of Willy Loman and Miller's former wife, Marilyn Monroe (Death of a Salesman and After the Fall). So last year Miller's interest was aroused when he heard about Peter Reilly, 18, who had been convicted of manslaughter for the 1973 killing of his mother in Canaan, Conn.-not far from Miller's home. Reviewing the evidence and the confession (which Reilly made after...