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...first major donation of University President Drew G. Faust’s tenure, the family of Brazilian billionaire Jorge P. Lemann ’61 has formally endowed Harvard’s year-old Brazil Studies program, the University announced earlier this month...
...addition to paying to staff the Brazil Studies Program’s office in São Paulo and to provide opportunities for international study and work, the new endowment will fund professors who gear research on topics such as labor inequities and HIV/AIDS toward Brazil...
...That’s the novelty of the program,” Dominguez said. “[Lemann]’s not compelling anybody to work on a topic that they’re not interested in, but if you decide to work in Brazil, he’s making your life a heck of a lot easier...
...donor made it clear that he had this hope of a better Brazil on the public service side, and that one way to advance his own objective was to make it possible for Harvard to advance that goal,” Dominguez said...
...course, rosy projections and grand national ambitions alone aren't enough to guarantee the successful launch of a new aircraft - let alone a new commercial aerospace manufacturer. The duopoly of Airbus and Boeing own the market for large jetliners; Bombardier and Brazil's Embraer are entrenched as leaders in regional jets and turboprops. Indonesia discovered just how treacherous the market can be in the 1990s when that country's government tried to bootstrap an aircraft-manufacturing industry by building 100-seat turboprop planes. The venture failed following Asia's 1997 financial crisis when it lost government funding. During the 1960s...