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...University will today confer honorary degrees on 11--including a celebrated conductor, a key benefactor, a Holocaust-survivor-turned- pioneering entrepreneur and three Nobel laureates...
...athletes' generating positive off-the-field publicity, consider the happy ending lurking deep in the shadows of the Alomar-Hirschbeck saga. The season after the spitting incident, Alomar sought Hirschbeck out during a game, shook his hand and apologized. In the years since, Alomar has become a leading benefactor of the charity Hirschbeck established to research adrenoleukodystrophy, the brain disease inherited by his two sons. The player and ump now consider one another friends. During a game May 20, reporters spotted Alomar hugging 13-year-old Indians batboy Michael Hirschbeck, John's son, in the Indians dugout...
...given $50 million to the school, said in a statement, "The bonds of trust [that] allow me to give at a high level have been shredded." Apparently, so have plans for an $80 million expansion of the school's stadium, a project for which Knight was a primary benefactor and which university officials say they may now be forced to delay. "It's never a good thing to lose the support of a graduate," said university president Dave Frohnmayer. Particularly when he's the richest graduate you have...
Ravelstein owes his good, big fortune to Chick, who suggested that his friend write a book in the hope of bringing his expensive tastes and his professorial income into closer alignment. But Chick does not consider himself Ravelstein's benefactor or mentor: "Though I was his senior by some years he saw himself as my teacher." Chick sees things the same way and willingly obeys Ravelstein's instructions: "He wanted me to write his biography and at the same time he wanted to rescue me from my pernicious habits. He thought I was stuck in privacy and should be restored...
...brief pre-game ceremony at midfield, Harvard officially opened its new artificial turf stadium in a dedication to its benefactor, Gerald Jordan...