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...move to a new location at 7 Cambridge Center in Kendall Square in early 2006. Eli Broad built his fortune over decades as the architect of two Fortune 500 companies. Summers, who turned 51 yesterday, said during his remarks that the gift was “the largest birthday present I ever expected to receive.” The crowd responded with a rendition of “Happy Birthday.” —Staff writer May Habib can be reached at habib@fas.harvard.edu...
...doubt the boss will be in a mood to attend." GENERAL GUILLERMO GARIN, spokesman for General Augusto Pinochet, on the former Chilean dictator's cancellation of a luncheon celebrating his 90th birthday, after he was indicted on human-rights charges and placed under house arrest
Will Trent Lott rise again? Back in 2002, the Mississippi Republican's career seemed over. At a birthday party for Strom Thurmond, Lott quipped that America would have been "better off" if the centenarian had won his 1948 segregationist bid for President. Lott apologized profusely but was forced to abandon his post as Senate majority leader. Since then, Lott, 64, has slowly regained stature--so much so that insiders think if he stays in the Senate, he will return to a leadership post. Lott tells TIME he "certainly will" consider running for a top G.O.P. job if he seeks...
...BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED. By HARRIET, 175, a giant Gal?pagos tortoise and the world's oldest known animal; in Canberra, Australia. While there is some dispute over Harriet's exact age and the claim that she was brought from the Gal?pagos Islands by Charles Darwin, DNA evidence suggests that she was born before the famed naturalist's 1835 expedition, which would make her at least 170. Harriet, who for more than a century was believed to be a male and went by the name Harry, marked the occasion with a snack of pink hibiscus flowers...
...November 2003 when shareholders revolted over the surfacing allegations. Along with three other senior executives, Black is also accused of illegally pocketing $51.8 million from the sale of the company's Canadian newspaper assets, which he used to bankroll a lavish lifestyle including a $62,000 surprise birthday party for his wife. Each charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Black and the other defendants deny the charges...