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...GOING-AWAY PRESENT FROM JOHN W. KLUGE, chairman of the Metromedia Co., can be so generous as to make a person want to stay on after all. Last week, at a tribute to Columbia University's departing president, Michael I. Sovern, Kluge announced that he was giving the university a $60 million gift to endow minority scholarships. Kluge's donation is the largest ever made to Columbia, and according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, it's the sixth largest private gift given to an American university or college. Kluge also gave Columbia $25 million in 1987 and the same...
...must have workable enforcement mechanisms. In the absence of these mechanisms, countries resort to unilateral actions which undercut the trading system. There must be, in any reconstitution of the GATT and in subsequent rounds, provision for the formation and operation of dispute resolution panels, adoption of panel recommendations and generous provisions for substantive retaliation, if the panel's recommendations are ignored...
...brightest students ever at Harvard... ever," said Dan Lieberman, a former Dunster House tutor. "What's more important is that she was a warm, generous, down-to-earth, modest, courageous person...
...earnings the value of stock options awarded to managers. Stock incentives, which account for as much as 90% of corporate executive income, have come under attack by critics of excessive pay. The rule change, which could reduce declared profits as much as 48%, should discourage companies from being so generous. The decision was opposed by business groups, big investors, some legislators and the Big Six accounting firms. In a bow to these opponents, the new rule won't take effect until...
...students of the range of cultures and ethnic traditions represented by its members, the College's primary task is to encourage participation by all students in the full life of the College. It is responsible for creating a community based on mutual respect and generosity. And being generous towards other members of the college community means being a liberal in the traditional and best sense of that much-abused word: open to the free exchange of ideas in the spirit of civility and common decency...