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...million gift from California philanthropists Eli and Edythe L. Broad will bring together researchers across the two universities, in what founders described as an unprecedented collaboration. The new Broad Institute will grow out of Whitehead’s programs, under the leadership of Eric Lander, a faculty member at both MIT and Whitehead and a key player in the completed Human Genome Project...
...Broad donation is not an endowment: it is earmarked to directly fund research over the next decade. It is also unusual in that Eli Broad—chair of financial service giant AIG SunAmerica and a noted philanthropist who helped fund the Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles—has no prior connection to MIT or Harvard...
...Fernandez and Eli Alper wrote controversial columns that some people may remember years from now—about the football team’s placekickers and the band, respectively. I’ll forget the columns in six months. I’ll remember the way Dan’s wit oscillated between the maddening and the endearing, and the time I trudged out to a rainy Harvard Stadium to watch him face much-maligned Harvard kicker Anders Blewett in a ludicrous placekicking contest. I’ll remember Eli kicking it Alper-style at a party in New Jersey...
With the 2004 elections stampeding onwards, America is once again coming due for its periodic reminder of who really runs this country. Moneyed interests? Nope. The CIA? Wrong. The Skull and Bones? Get real, Eli. The real power in this country lies in the hands of the ugly, mushy middle: swing voters...
Even by the standards of hardball lobbying, it's a startling claim: suicides will surge if a bill to restrain Medicaid spending on prescription drugs is passed. But that's what one lobbyist for Eli Lilly said to Minnesota state Rep. Fran Bradley's face recently. "My phone has rung off the hook with people telling me I'm going to cause a severalfold increase in suicides," said Bradley, a Republican who previously won awards from state mental-health advocates for his progressive legislation...