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Foundation Program Officer Pamela W. Brumberg said that "the Littauer Foundation has had a long relationship with Harvard, which began when Lucius Littauer, who established the Foundation, attended Harvard College." Littauer was a member of the Class...
According to Brumberg, recent grants the Foundation has awarded to Harvard include a gift to the Divinity School for scholarship in Judaica and grants to the Semitic Museum...
...having silicone injected into their breasts, she thinks Wolf's book distorts the relationship between feminism and beauty. Women, she says, do not have to choose between the two, but can delight in a frivolous enjoyment of fashion without becoming a slave to it. In contrast, Joan Jacobs Brumberg, an associate professor of women's studies at Cornell University, who wrote a 1988 history of anorexia titled Fasting Girls, welcomes Wolf's book as another expose of the kind of self-inflicted damage that women undergo as a matter of course. "At this moment," she says, "looking good...
Modigliani's insights have influenced generations of students and policymakers. His "life-cycle" savings theory, developed in the 1950s with Richard Brumberg, is accepted by nearly all experts as a key to understanding thrift. Among other uses, the work offers a yardstick for gauging the impact of different pension systems. The theory suggests, for example, that people will tuck away less when they are guaranteed retirement income. That prediction has been borne out by the experience of Sweden, where savings rates plummeted from 7% to virtually zero after the government embarked in the 1960s on a sweeping pension program...