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...campaign--the largest in Brown's history--has received 27 "leadership gifts" in excess of $1 million. Most gifts have come from individuals and only 20 per cent from corporations and foundations, Robert Sieple, vice president for development, said last week, adding that, "We have gone through only 10 per cent of our top prospects--there is still a lot of potential...
...approved by the council also includes the first formal acknowledgment of a "one-day-a-week" rule governing outside activities that has existed as University common law for many years. Under that guideline, Harvard expects full-time faculty members to spend an average of no more than 20 per cent of their working hours on outside activities...
...Extraordinarily important work" into how healthy cells are transformed into cancer cells may be 90 per cent false, Richard E. McCarty, chairman of Cornell's department of biochemistry, said, adding that the work "had attracted a great deal of attention...
...Nationalists receive the bulk of their support from Afrikaners, and most of those who vote for the Progressives are English-speaking. Marijuana is widely smoked by English youth but rarely smoked by Afrikaners. But there is no fundamental difference in outlook. Beckett believes that only about 5 per cent of the whites desire geniune reform. The overwhelming majority of English-speakers would fight just as fiercely as the Afrikaners to preserve their privileges. The young airline employee confirmed this view. "There are so many of them against us....," she said. "We certainly need changes, but we have too much here...
...next five years, if not sooner. Mazibuko sees a pattern of steadily escalating urban violence, with terrorist attacks on civilians. These incidents will be met with massive Government retaliation, which in turn will cause a mass, uncontrolled Black uprising. Beckett believes South African has about a 1 per cent chance of avoiding revolution. It will be a very long and drawn-out struggle, unlike any revolution in history, he said, adding that there has never been a revolution in a country with such a large and well-entrenched elite...