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...needs to go to Langkawi or Lombok; vacationers in the U.S. and Europe have the sunny beaches of Hawaii, the Caribbean or Greece, all within a medium hop. Yet the urge to holiday far from home, plus a desire to feel adventurous or chic, continues to be tapped to endow places many Western travelers have never heard of with irresistible allure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Beach too Far | 8/4/2003 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Look Back | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Alums Fight For Equality | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

...million donation, announced last Thursday, will endow the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, which will help to educate the venture capitalists of the future...

Author: By Wendy D. Widman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Venture Capitalist Gives HBS $25 Mil. | 2/5/2003 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fonda Cuts Major Ed. School Gift | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

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