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Congressional critics blasted Stanford University earlier this year after reports that the top-ranked school had charged taxpayers for floral arrangements and upkeep on a yacht. Several months later, under pressure from a General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation, Harvard publicly announced that it was withdrawing $500,000 in questionable charges from this year's request for federal reimbursements...
...with many of the area's 700 residents and learn what neighborhood problems concerned them most. Those conversations led him to recognize, he says, "that the good people far outnumbered the bad." Meanwhile, he organized a volunteer community cleanup, which filled 30 Dumpsters with litter; arranged federal funding for floral plantings; and even held a contest to choose a name for the neighborhood: Sparrow Estates...
...credited with writing, directing, producing, set and sound designing and publicizing Family Secrets. In some of these roles, Prince seems extremely capable. The publicity is nice. The sound is clear, and the play features a well-chosen soundtrack of old jazz standards. The detailed split-level set--red floral couch, liquor bottles, a shelf of old board games--turns the Mather TV room into a good simulation of an old woman's living room and attic in Westchester County...
...Stanford the subcommittee found the university had tagged as indirect costs such expenses as the depreciation on a 72-foot yacht and floral decorations for the home of President Donald Kennedy '52. Stanford has agreed to pay back nearly $700,000 to the government, said the investigator, who spoke on condition of anonymity...
During the probe at Stanford launched by the subcommittee in October, investigators found that the university had been allotting hundreds of thousands of dollars of indirect cost funds to cover the depreciation on a 72-foot yacht, floral arrangements at the home of President Donald Kennedy '52, and the refurbishment of a grand piano at the President's home, according to a report published last month by The Boston Globe...