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Back in the days when NASDAQ-made millionaires were multiplying like mold spores, Desai materialized as a boy-wonder benefactor. He went on a pledging spree, contacting four colleges out of the blue and promising them a total of more than $5 million. That was before the Internet bubble--not to mention Desai's career--burst. To date he has coughed up only...
...residents of Cambridge and other communities become increasingly unhappy with the University's actions, it would behoove Harvard to give Watertown a generous PILOT. We do not begrudge the University its space, but it is not in the University's interest to appear as a community villain rather than benefactor--especially after having recently purchased land in Allston. With Cambridge city counselors calling for increased payments from Harvard and MIT, the University must demonstrate that it is truly committed to a socially responsible position in local affairs. Harvard can afford the loss of a couple million dollars a year...
Eleven months after the pardon, Cox lived up to his billing with a pledge to the library. His name is etched in gold as a "benefactor," those whose donations amount to between $100,000 to $250,000. He also serves as a library trustee. (The precise size of the donation remains unknown because the Bush library, while listing its patrons, has declined to release the amounts they gave.) The Cox family's generosity began years earlier with at least $35,000 in contributions to Bush and GOP campaigns. (The total may have been higher because soft money did not have...
...unlike the rest of Boston, whose Norman Rockwell qualities have gradually given way to human landscapes, my mental images of Widener have become daguerrotypes, gauzy and greyscale. A shot of the pillars at night, spilling down and across a frozen Yard. A slow panning of the benefactor's full name carved into stone. The inviting wasteland of snowy steps. A clump of visitors posed longingly or curiously on the very top step, taking photographs of each other...
Likewise, Stieglitz's lifelong bond with Marin was based on an intense mutual respect, although Marin was capable of putting it to unusual tests. Once, having extracted an advance of $1,200 from his buddy and benefactor to keep himself and his new wife going for a year, the great landscapist turned up after six weeks and told Stieglitz that he had blown every cent of it buying a waterless island in Maine, and that his wife was expecting. The chosen few who got to show at Stieglitz's galleries were not members of a stable but rather part foster...