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Despite the conviction of University donor A. Alfred Taubman over price-fixing at Sotheby’s, the University says it does not plans to remove his name from the Kennedy School’s Taubman Center for State and Local Government. Taubman gave $15 million in 1988 to found the center...
...project has now grown so much in cost that the University last fall asked Knafel if it could name just one of the buildings after him—and free up the other building to attract some other major donor...
...Given that Afghanistan is grappling with rebuilding a devastated country, excavating an old statue isn't high on the Kabul government's list of priorities. But this week, the U.N. is sponsoring a meeting in Kabul of archaeologists, scholars and possible donor nations to repair the country's war-shattered culture, starting in Bamiyan. Experts say that to restore one of the standing Buddhas could amount to $50 million. A dig for the reclining Buddha would cost a fraction of that...
...difficulty is that there’s all kinds of complicated constraints that have come by way of various donors,” says Littauer Professor of Public Policy and Administration William Hogan. “If a donor has contributed X amount of dollars for center Y, you can’t just get rid of center Y and take the money...
...simply how information is shared. Childlessness is a private sorrow; the miracle baby is an inevitable headline. "When you see these media stories hyping women in their late 40s having babies, it's with donor eggs," insists Stanford's Adamson, "but that is conveniently left out of the stories." The more aggressive infertility clinics have a financial incentive to hype the good news and bury the facts: a 45-year-old woman who has gone through seven cycles of IVF can easily spend $100,000 on treatment. But even at the best fertility clinics in the country, her chance...