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...gone, his ideas still retain a dangerous appeal, and his death will only intensify anger among those who will endow him with martyrdom. As the cries for revenge continue, support for his doctrine of hatred and segregation is likely to grow among both Israelis and Palestinians...
...Prince Turki Professor who improves health? Who wants to relieve the burden of sick and suffering? Would Harvard name a professorship in civil liberties after Bull Connor? Endow a chair in international peace for Saddam Hussein...
Another $5 million will go to endow five junior faculty research fellowships in all areas of the humanities. The remaining $5 million will establish a classroom endowment fund for the support of undergraduate teaching facilities, the largest gift of this kind ever received by any university, according to Schmidt...
Citing Harvard's "academic knowledge" and "practical experience" in the study of international corporations, the Sumitomo Bank of Japan announced this week that it will endow a $1.5 million chair at the John F. Kennedy School of Government...
Some of Turow's irritability stemmed from the recognition that his writing was going nowhere. In spite of his gratitude to helpful professors -- part of his earnings from Presumed Innocent went to endow a fellowship at Stanford -- he felt stymied by "academic values about literature, the sense that books could be appreciated only by a priesthood. I thought that a great novel could be read as well by a bus driver as by an English professor. It was not a popular view." He was also convinced that no great novels would be written by him. "It finally dawned...