Word: businessman
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...chairman of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) alumni group resigned last month, protesting the unusual research appointment of a former Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) affiliate which he charges was made as a condition of a Saudi businessman's $1 million gift to Harvard...
...University's handling of another major Saudi Arabian contribution generated confusion and criticism. In May of 1982, Harvard accepted a $1 million gift from a Saudi businessman to establish a professorship in contemporary Arab Studies that some faculty members of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies said was effectively conditional on the appointment of Walid Khalidi, previously a visiting professor and reportedly an affiliate of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), to an unusual open-ended research post. As one official close to the center, who declined to be identified, described it last May, Harvard and the unnamed donor...
...future, without competitive tennis, remains hazy for Beren. Although he majored in Economics and his father is a successful businessman, he has no interest in big-time capitalism. "The only reason I'd do that would be to make lots of money and give it all away. The only way to make a lot of money in the corporate world is by winning, by stepping on other people to get to the top, and I no longer believe I can do that with a clear conscience...
Politics seemed to come naturally from the start. "He understood how to evaluate people, how to get them to work, even as a very young man," says Zentz. Elliott, modest about his achievements but joyful in their retelling, credits his "many teachers," including his father. Duwaine, a successful businessman and former town board president...
MARRIED. Anastasio Somoza ("Tachito") Portocarrero, 30, oldest son and onetime heir apparent to the late Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle; and Marisa Celasco Oberholzer, 24, Salvadoran socialite daughter of a Swiss mother and Italian businessman father; both for the first time; in Miami...