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...doctors struggled to keep the dying man alive, Copeland's assistants made desperate calls to organ-procurement agencies, hoping to find another human donor heart for him. None was available. Copeland then made a bold decision. He opted to use a virtually untested artificial heart to sustain Creighton until another human heart could be found--a direct violation of federal rules. There was no time, Copeland later said, to seek permission from the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates the use of medical devices: "If we had asked them to make a decision, the patient would have been dead...
...fountain, which was designed last year by Peter Walker, former chairman of the Landscape Architecture Program at the Graduate School of Design, is endowed by its donor for six hours of running time a day, according to Oommen. Oommen did not comment on the amount of money saved or lost due to the fountain's inactivity over the winter...
...Quad, the University is making lurching progress. Three years from now, after all the dust has settled. Cabot House residents will enjoy much bigger and prettier rooms. Once a donor is found to rebuild North House, it may be brought up to parity with its River counterparts. Those are great first steps. Still, the less concrete issues of how the preferential lottery works against Harvard's diversity, and how undergraduates feel about House life today, have yet to be addressed...
...Boston-based Northeast Investors, headed by $100,000-plus Harvard Campaign donor Ernest E. Monrad '51, where all five directors hold Harvard degrees...
...Lowell's Wang Laboratories headed by $4-million donor An Wangs 1948 Harvard PhD recipient, which has six grads on its 11-member board. Wang, with four Asians, also boasts the largest Asain representation on any Bay State board...