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...foundation plans to convert the house into a center for Philippine Studies, and, in addition, hopes to raise money to endow a Chair in Philippine Studies at either Harvard or MIT, said Steve Angular, the foundation's president...
...classroom, is destined to become a great artist. Poor Beulah! i A quiet, tiny child, self-immured, she seems to suffer from "an unremitting bewilderment," much like the young Cynthia Ozick, as she recalls herself. In the novel, Ozick has reserved some of her most luminous prose to endow this girl-child with tender life. Though bursting with irony and wit, The Cannibal Galaxy takes on a fearful seriousness when Ozick cites this fragment from the Talmud: "The world rests on the breath of the children in the schoolhouses...
...pleaded guilty to bid-rigging charges and faced a $2 million fine. Instead, at the company's suggestion, Urbom sought to do something more concrete about the bid-rigging crime. Missouri Valley will now pay a $325,000 fine, but will then ante up $1,475,000 to endow a chair in business ethics at the University of Nebraska...
Officials said that $1 million of that amount has been allotted to endow a new Takemi Professorship, which they expect to fill by September 1984 after initiating a world-wide search in the next few months...
Hiatt said that officials will also be looking to Japanese sources--most likely companies which have had contact with Takemi--to raise as much as $4 million in additional funds for the program. The fund will primarily endow the costs of the annual fellowships...