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Business School: The Business School shield uses the arms of its benefactor, Mr. George F. Baker, from a printed Family Genealogy...
...benefactor Peter L. Malkin ’55 said he thinks there may be some money left over in a “maintenance endowment” from his original $4 million donation in 1985 (which matched the amount given by Harvard) to renovate...
...This hazy request (or was it a warning?) came during a meeting earlier this week between Secretary of State Colin Powell and the Emir of Qatar, who is also Al-Jazeera's founder and primary benefactor. As is so often the case when First Amendment expectations collide with wartime diplomacy, the parameters of "acceptable censorship" seem to depend entirely upon personal perception. In this case, anyway, Powell's entreaty does not appear to have crossed any serious lines of protocol...
Under sanctions, the Taliban could not get the supplies it needed to maintain control over Afghanistan. So it turned to its old friend who had been such a faithful ally during the Cold War—Osama bin Laden. U.N. sanctions made bin Laden the second biggest benefactor of the Taliban (second only to Pakistan). Not only does he provide substantial financial support to the Taliban, but he also provides thousands of loyal war veterans—both of which have been essential as the Taliban continues to battle Afghan rebels in the northern part of the country...
Stalled at the gates of Kabul, the Taliban found an enthusiastic new benefactor. Osama bin Laden, who had spent some of his family fortune to finance the anti-Soviet mujahedin, needed a new home after Sudan succumbed to U.S. blandishments to kick him out. In exchange for a haven in Afghanistan's switchback valleys and rugged passes, bin Laden offered the Taliban money and fighters. Afghan and Western sources say he gave $3 million that helped push the Taliban into control of the capital and the country in September 1996. It was, according to intelligence reports, one of the last...