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...visited his Huntsville prison 30 times and witnessed his Oct. 25 execution by lethal injection. Shortly before his death, Summers accepted a last-minute offer to be buried in Tuscany after attempts to obtain burial rights in the Netherlands, Britain and Tennessee had been unsuccessful. The benefactor was Cascina middle school principal Maria Carmela Carretta, who'd been following the case with a class of sixth-graders after reading about it in a Catholic magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dead Man's Walk Ends Far from Home | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

...orphans in the Boston area to funding the Fujian construction. China Care has a network of undergraduate clubs on campuses across the nation, from USC to Emory, and has worked with a number of orphanages throughout China. The Harvard chapter began working with the Saiqi orphanage when its previous benefactor, the Hope Foster Home in Beijing, could no longer provide funds. “The present building is two stories and very run down,” said Adam Sang ’08, HCC’s internships coordinator. “It was meant to be temporary...

Author: By P. KIRKPATRICK Reardon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: China Care Raises Funds for Orphanage | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

...frequently cited case of Harvard’s slavery ties is that of the original benefactor of Harvard Law School...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beneath The Ivy, A Legacy of Chains | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

...Moss is broke and living, astonishingly, among the masses in a blue-collar housing estate, dependent for a time on handouts from friends, of which he deservedly has many (the abandoned boy that Moss sheltered decades ago, now married and middle class, returns to make his old benefactor a gift of almost $30,000). Far from being bitter about his circumstances, Moss merely notes that it was "especially pleasing" to realize that his neighbors on the estate were the descendants of squatters resettled in housing programs that he had once extolled as the government's spin supremo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Civil Savant | 10/2/2006 | See Source »

...School of Dental Medicine professor cleared last month of allegations that he covered up links between fluoride and bone cancer is listed as a million-dollar benefactor of the school’s new research and education building. The revelation has led one environmental advocacy group to suggest that a recent Harvard investigation of the professor, Chester W. Douglass, may have been compromised due to the professor’s status as a patron of the school. The Washington-based Environmental Working Group, which initially brought the accusations against Douglass, said on Friday that the professor’s donation...

Author: By Javier C. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prof in Fluoride Flap Gave $1M to Harvard | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

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