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...people don't trust Harvard. Harvardhas a very large endowment, and Harvard doesn'tspend it voluntarily on things that we wouldlike," said Naiman, who has given annually toRadcliffe. "When all of us die off and have nomore wills to bequeath things in, will [Harvard]stop caring about this [Institute...
...order to provide land and livelihoods to otherwise rootless farmers. Thus a counter-claim can be made to my professor's original claim, that it would be even more immoral for us to bequeath to posterity a world in which poverty and starvation are pervasive. We can see from these contrasting claims why many consider concern for the environment to be a luxury among those whose basic human needs are met and thus not as morally incumbent a cause as the fight against hunger and destitution...
Indeed, the almost daily advances in our ability to forecast any of the 4,000 inherited diseases our genes might bequeath us have created such a thorny knot of private, ethical and social issues that the new genetic procedures are the subject of some 20 bills before Congress. In addition, 3% or 4% of the federal investment in the Human Genome Project--about $90 million--is now going to studies seeking to untangle them. One result is the imminent appointment of an 11-member blue-ribbon panel to advise Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala...
...know anyone who's a little depressed," he jokes, "Tell them to leave" (and bequeath him their room...
These days, it seems better to refuse than to receive. LARRY KRAMER, bellicose playwright and activist, wanted to bequeath several million dollars to Yale for a tenured chair in gay and lesbian studies. Yale, which doesn't like to take instruction from benefactors, said "it was inappropriate to endow in perpetuity a professorship in an academic area yet to be well established or defined," and wanted to put his money elsewhere. Kramer opted out. "It has been a very distasteful experience," says the playwright. Meanwhile in St. Paul, Minn., artist LEROY NEIMAN withdrew an offer to donate $4.5 million worth...