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Many of the Britons mourning Michael Foot, who died March 3 at 96, did not vote Labour when he led the party. Some had not yet reached voting age when he (right, with his wife, the author and filmmaker Jill Craigie) helmed the party's 1983 parliamentary campaign. Some had not yet been born. And a thumping majority of those who were eligible to vote chose to retain Margaret Thatcher as prime minister, after Britain's 1982 Falklands-war victory burnished her popularity...
Harvard has begun planning for its next capital campaign, University President Drew G. Faust said in an interview earlier this month, after over five years of delays caused by turmoil within the University and in the larger economic landscape...
Over the coming months, the University’s planning effort will identify projects and themes that Faust said she hopes will excite donors. The University has not yet set a firm date for the launch of the campaign...
...Capital campaigns for major non-profits typically span several years and begin securing donation pledges before the campaign is publicly launched, sometimes raising upwards of 40 percent of the campaign’s net commitments in the so-called “quiet phase” of fundraising. The University has appointed Jennifer Pachus, a former FAS associate dean for development, as executive director of the upcoming capital campaign...
Harvard’s last capital campaign, which raised $2.6 billion ($3.2 billion in today’s dollars), ended nearly 10 years ago in 2001, but the University has repeatedly decided to postpone a new campaign in recent years...