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...stronger and wealthier institution than when he came to it. Bok restored stability to a campus ripped apart by the '60s, overseeing unprecedented expansion of facilities and programs such as the creation of the John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 20 years, Bok increased the endowment five-fold to about $5 billion--the highest by far of any institution of higher education in the world...
...plan to fold the East Asian Studies (EAS) concentration into the East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC) Department will face its final hurdles next week at a Faculty meeting, and professors in each field yesterday predicted swift approval for the long-awaited merger...
Silverstein said that Harvard Against Cancer has "two-fold" goals--fundraising and the organization of support groups for patients and their families and friends...
...commercial upbraids consumers: "We're tired of taking your crap! If we fold, you'll have no damn phones!" A Porsche ad promises male owners instant sex. And a United Airlines spot boasts, "Most of our passengers get there alive!" In the new Paramount film, Crazy People, the advertising copywriter who pens these lines is committed to an insane asylum. Since this is Hollywood, though, the writer, played by Dudley Moore, soon becomes the hottest property on Madison Avenue and falls in love with Daryl Hannah...
...more than 1 million investors, Peter Lynch was a magician, a modern alchemist who transmuted their modest savings into solid wealth. Since Lynch began running the then tiny Fidelity Magellan fund in 1977, its shares have surged 25-fold in value -- far more than the fourfold gain for the Dow Jones industrial average during the same period or the increase for any other mutual fund. Lynch, 46, built Boston-based Magellan from a $22 million operation into a $13.3 billion monster, the world's biggest and most celebrated fund. And he did it the old-fashioned way, through 13-hour...