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...Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to an antinuclear organization founded by a Harvard professor and a Soviet doctor. The Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway announced that the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, a worldwide consortium of doctors committed to banning nuclear weapons, won the gold medal and its $225,000 cash prize...
...auction in Washington, the Administration sells the National Park system to General Dynamics Corp. and the Supreme Court--along with a 25-year supply of black robes--to Carl Icahn, and sells a 99-year lease on the Department of Health and Human Services to a pan-Arab investment consortium. The total proceeds...
These are noble sentiments, but the taint of yuppiedom does stain initiatives like Harvard's fund or the Brown consortium described in one article. Suddenly a group of extraordinarily wealthy institutions announces that public service is once again a priority and in good yuppie style they proceed to set up computer banks, hire a professional staff and allocate a large budget...
Researchers at three Harvard-affiliated hospitals have formed a consortium that hopes to increase the testing of various anti-AIDS drugs, such as newly invented Compound...
HARVARD'S MOST RECENT proposal, offered last spring after some compromise, is to sell the forest to Golden for $400,000. Golden would form an "educational consortium" of about a dozen schools to use the forest for research. Harvard would then leave that $400,000 in a permanent endowment to remain associated with Black Rock, but would keep the $2.5 million to support Petersham operations...