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Today, Libé has a new benefactor in the form of Edouard de Rothschild, and a new unstarry-eyed editor, Laurent Joffrin. The paper flirted briefly with break-even in 2007 and it's trying to find a way to go post-ideological, sort of. The Net, conferences, French open-shirted philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy shilling with advertisers - the new Libé will try almost anything. Joffrin even invited Carla Bruni, wife of France's rightist President Nicolas Sarkozy, to serve as celebrity editor for a day, but that was a step too far and Joffrin was forced...
...fund research and a faculty chair in his name. The donation will finance an endowed professorship and support teaching and research activities, conferences, and fellowships in constitutional law. Steven Oliveira, the law school’s dean for development and alumni relations, declined to comment on what connection the benefactor had with Tribe or the Law School, saying only that the donor “is obviously someone who is an admirer of his work and career.” The donation—one of the largest gifts tied to an endowed professorship in the history...
...study emphasizes Harvard’s role as a benefactor to its local community in times of financial crisis. The University commissioned the 18-page report as an update to a similar 2004 study, said the report’s author Hugh O’Neill, founder and president of Appleseed, a New York consulting firm...
Faust added that $5 million of a recent $100 million gift from longtime Harvard benefactor David Rockefeller ’36 had been earmarked for arts initiatives, such as those proposed by the task force...
...defense also called upon Grace Rwaramba, nanny to Jackson's three children, to demonstrate that the sheik was a generous benefactor who was eager to lavish Jacko with gifts...