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...Business School and the Harvard China Fund jointly operate the Shanghai office, whose staff will help arrange internships for undergraduates, provide research support for Business School faculty, and potentially offer executive education courses on-site, according to Jorge I. Dominguez, vice provost for international affairs...
...Harvard China Fund, a University-wide initiative to support teaching and research in and about China, has already been able to place between 20 and 25 Harvard undergraduates in internships with Chinese companies through the Shanghai office, said Todd S. Washburn, assistant provost for international affairs. The Fund will also "host occasional social and academic outings, seminars, and get-togethers to allow students to interact with local businesspeople, and community members," he said...
William C. Kirby, the Fund's director, said the offices would serve the broader University community beyond just the Business School and the China Fund programs, pointing to existing collaborations between local faculty and other Harvard schools, such as the Law School on Chinese disability law and the Kennedy School on crisis management...
...that a long version of the film was first sent to Buenos Aires back in 1928 at the request of the Terra film distribution company. A film critic named Manuel Peña Rodríguez obtained the reels, selling them in the 1960s to Argentina's national art fund. A copy was passed to the Buenos Aires museum in 1992, but its value was not realized until...
...Twain declined to let his admirers organize a relief fund. He resolved to make enough money himself, writing and lecturing, to pay back every cent. "Honor is a harder master than the law," he said, sounding considerably more righteous than usual. But it was actually his wife, supported by Henry H. Rogers, an otherwise ruthless Standard Oil exec who had volunteered to manage Twain's money, who insisted he not take an easier...