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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...
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...