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...eight event on Saturday. Facing an extremely competitive field, the two entries representing the Crimson finished first (15:03.976) and third (15:24.326), respectively.Meanwhile, the men’s lightweight rowers represented the Crimson on the Charles in the lightweight fours and the lightweight eights. Led by senior coxswain Eli Kupperman, the lightweight four finished seventh in 17:36.856, barely edging out Cornell, who finished three seconds after. The first place entry from rival Yale finished well ahead of its other competitors with a time of 16:27:02. Harvard had two entries in the lightweight eight event yesterday...
...country's largest philanthropies to stop funding Ed in '08, a nonpartisan campaign created to make improving education a top priority in the 2008 presidential race. When Ed in '08 launched 16 months ago, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Los Angeles-based Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation promised $60 million to finance the single-issue project. Now, however, $24 million into the campaign, both organizations have decided to pull the plug...
...group of one, a constituent named Bob, who avidly promotes the view. Inslee hopes to be able to vote yes on a revised bailout bill later this week, but only if it satisfies his concerns. "We'll see what's presented to us," he says. - By Eli Sanders / Seattle...
...center for education research, backed by philanthropist Eli Broad and led by economics professor Roland G. Fryer Jr., will open soon at Harvard, the Broad Foundation announced yesterday at the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York.The $44-million effort, called the Education Innovation Laboratory (or “EdLabs”), will bring together economists and educators to study strategies for improving K-12 public school education. Research will focus on three test cities, New York, Washington, and Chicago.Different schemes will be implemented in each city, allowing researchers to test controversial programs like compensating students for high test...
...Harvard and MIT launched a decade-long experiment to test an innovative organizational model for scientific discovery. Now, the results are in. The Broad Institute, a unique joint effort between Harvard and MIT to bring genome-based information to medicine, received a $400 million gift from founding benefactors Eli and Edythe L. Broad last week. The gift marked the fourth anniversary of the institute. The gift brings the total investment by the Broads to $600 million, dwarfing any donation given to either university. The new gift will enable the institute, founded soon after the completion of the Human Genome Project...