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Administrators say it is difficult to dip into the endowment to pay brick-and-mortar costs, because donors often earmark their gifts to Harvard for other projects. The Harvard Campaign, a recent fund drive, set a goal of $12 million for the houses and dorms, but raised only...
...though MOMI's 1978 prospectus preceded AMMI's by three years, and a trace of bantering rancor shows through the Brits' geniality toward their upstart colonial rival. Perhaps because MOMI was spawned by the venerable British Film Institute, it seems a more comprehensive and congenial trip down the Yellow Brick Road of movie and TV history. It is certainly the more lavish in ambition and design: a superproduction on location under Waterloo Bridge...
...door of their modest brick bungalow, Doug Quimby and his wife Frankie greet the 37-year-old Robinson fondly, with gruff good humor. The three have met before, and the Quimbys know why their friend is here. Doug, 51, is slated to play a major role in a folk opera that Walter has just completed, and the two men need to run through some changes in the score. In addition to this contribution, the Quimbys offer their visitor an entree to gospel singers in the small, isolated churches of coastal Georgia. Untrained choir singers such as these will...
...several years after World War II, the plain seven-story red-brick building that stands on the north bank of the Kanda River in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district housed a women's unit of General MacArthur's Occupation Army. On the outside, nothing distinguishes the building from other office blocks in the Japanese capital. Inside, employees toil elbow to elbow in open work areas illuminated by fluorescent lights, and the air is heavy with cigarette smoke. Yet the modest facade masks the nerve center of a powerful financial empire: Nomura Securities, the largest, richest and most profitable securities firm...
Then Katie rolls over in the bed her father built in her room under angled ceilings on the top floor of their cozy brick, gingerbread-looking house. Her Barbie dolls are stored safely in their pink footlocker. Her snuggly stuffed animals are placed carefully around her. On the floor next to her bed is a pile of books awaiting the dawn of another gloriously unprogrammed, day-care- free summer morning...