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Film star Jane Fonda gives $12.5 million to endow a Graduate School of Education center to study how gender affects children’s development and learning...
...committee has had some public successes. They ran a 1998 national conference on women in academia held at Harvard. They raised enough money to endow a joint professorship between the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Most recently, they compiled and published a book of essays on women in American research universities...
...million donation, announced last Thursday, will endow the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, which will help to educate the venture capitalists of the future...
Fonda’s pledge—which would have been the GSE’s largest in its 83-year-history—was slated to endow a center with $2.5 million earmarked for the center’s chair, a position named for famed gender studies expert and former Graham professor of gender studies Carol Gilligan...
There are many, many people—and many of these, Christians—who think that “love, justice, and righteousness” require us to stop a brutal dictator who threatens the peace of the world, and who quite conceivably could endow terrorists with tools of apocalyptic slaughter. And they are not limited, as Gomes suggests, to “evangelicals who have found little fault with anything that this administration has done or proposes to do, and who seldom met a war they didn’t like.” This is abusive language...