Word: dianas
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...Diana M. Nelson ’84, a member of a group of major alumni donors, said she expected them to stay focused on high-profile issues including Allston and undergraduate education. But, Nelson said, the two might come up with different “specific funding priorities” detailing how money should be spent within these areas. She emphasized that she did not expect funding decisions to be made through a “top-down, centralized process” but rather one involving deans and faculties across the University...
...Diana M. Nelson ’84, a member of a group of major alumni donors, said she expected them to stay focused on high-profile issues like Allston and undergraduate education. But, Nelson said, the two might come up with different "specific funding priorities" detailing how money should be spent within these areas. She emphasized she did not expect funding decisions to be made through a "top-down, centralized process" but rather one involving deans and faculties across the University. Summers was criticized by many professors for not giving them enough input into deciding how Harvard's money should...
...Princess Diana's Legacy Why do people still love Princess Diana [Sept. 3]? Because she was compassionate, warm and humane. Why are Prince Charles and Camilla unpopular? Because they seem unethical, cold and selfish. Diana left the world an infinitely rewarding message of generosity and kindness. Akikazu Nagatomi, Kunitachi City, Japan...
...Princessof Wales, the people I knew were not "snuffling into their tissues." They were shrugging their shoulders over this dim, vastly undereducated clotheshorse, this media creation who had fallen harder for her own myth than even her besotted admirers. As I heard people make ridiculous references to Diana's "worldwide humanitarian achievements," as I saw crowds sobbing hysterically over mounds of rotting flowers, I can't say that my opinion of the British (normally quite high) was at all improved. Ten years later, some people are still obsessed by the silly creature, largely, I suspect, because they're obsessed...
...Diana mattered not only to Britain, butto the whole world, as indicated by the global grief that accompanied her death. She made the world a better place...