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...other day, Director of University Development Thomas Reardon was trying to illustrate the success thus far of the five-year $350 million Harvard Campaign. The subject was major gifts—those in excess of $100,000—the backbone of any capital drive...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz | Title: 10,000 Men, $350 Million | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

With the recent raising of the Campaign’s sights, there’s going to be a lot of hullabaloo around here, as development officers try to preserve momentum from the first part of the fundraising drive and refocus it into the new push. There’ll be palm-greasing, backslapping, nostalgia, and simple exhortations to key alums to the fact that the final goal is no longer near, but two years and $135 million away...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz | Title: 10,000 Men, $350 Million | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

...when these strange men in dungarees read poetry to unmuted jazz, or steal cars and drive to Denver, or just “burn, burn, burn, like a fabulous yellow roman candle” it is with a vigor which marks the rest of us as dead, a bad penny vitality and a grubby crucifixion which make lectures and Haze-Bick existentialism seem extremely square...

Author: By John D. Leonard | Title: Free Beer and Poetry | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

...their last seven singles matches. Head coach Dave Fish ’72 specifically remembers the match against Brown, when both of these seemingly different personalities started to come together. Playing singles matches on side-by-side courts allowed Chijoff-Evans and Omodele-Lucien to find a higher competitive drive that allowed each to win a point for Harvard in the first round of the NCAA tournament. “I think as they got better, they sort of looked at each other and said, ‘hey, we’re together in this, let?...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Strong First-Year Duo Propels Team | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

...always go together. The dramatic rise in gasoline prices has caused widespread public anger, as every member of Congress who went home for the Memorial Day break is no doubt aware. Support for lowering energy prices is something that has both broad and deep support in America; it will drive voters to the ballot box. And although Warner-Lieberman, or any future cap-and-trade bill, is unlikely to hike the price of gasoline, it will surely be used as a convenient political scapegoat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble with Congress' Green Gambit | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

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