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...scholar of Hebrew and Yiddish literature, Horn is naturally interested in Jewish languages. She explains that even modern secular texts in these languages cannot elude their Biblical associations. In her novel, Horn strives to endow her English prose with this same Biblical force, merging the secular and religious in the story of a modern Job whose life’s obsession—taking snapshots of ancient religious sites—is destroyed during a hurricane...
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...
NELC also received a $1.5 million dollar donation, which the donor—Gordon Gray Jr. ’65—said was partially in response to the events of Sept. 11, to endow a position for an Arabic language preceptor...
Although former GSE Dean Jerome T. “Jerry” Murphy, who served from 1992 to 2000, raised $110 million, that money went primarily to endow chairs for faculty members—the school stills struggles to provide financial aid within its meager budget...
...support undergraduate financial aid, I will give to those institutions that extend aid out of an honest, clearly expressed desire to improve student access to a fine education. A proponent of the Senior Gift could further accuse me of blind ignorance—the Senior Gift surely does not endow some malevolent discretionary fund that Harry Lewis uses to enforce a lack of fun over Harvard students. I am not, of course, so naïve as to believe this; instead, I simply believe that the point must be made to the administration that we will not tolerate neglect...