Word: generousity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SURPRISINGLY enough, Barbie led a high-profile existence in his newly adopted homeland. With the generous help of various right-wing military dictators. Barbie obtained Bolivian citizenship in 1957 and soon established a profitable external commerce company-in reality a front for an arms shipment network. The ex-Gestapo officer, appreciated for his contacts abroad, made friends in high places. As unofficial leader of a fairly large collection of exiled German war criminals hiding in Bolivia, Barbie was able to organize his cronies into a sophisticated paramilitary back-up unit for General Banzar, who took power...
...many leaders of campus minority groups. Ironically, the trouble stems partly from the proliferation of funding sources. For example, the Radcliffe Union of Students used to give about $6000 a year to student groups--many of which were minorities. But they have since imposed restrictions on their once generous policy. The change stems from an Undergraduate council regulation stipulating that it will only allocate funds to a group if the organization has exhausted its other resources. Sharon J Orr '83 says that "it would be inequitable if RUS exhausts all its funds before the Undergraduate Council spends its money...
Despite these expenses, the Lampoon is still an extremely profitable non-profit organization declaring income of over $200,000 and assets of almost half a million dollars in 1980 for example. In fact, without such generous donations as those given annually to the College, the magazine could lose its tax-exempt, non-profit status...
Vellucci also suggested that faced with an eminent domain proceeding. Harvard might negotiate a more propitious arrangement will the city "If Harvard University wanted to be so generous as to offer the building, that would bring the cost down, wouldn...
...most generous donors has been John L. Loeb '24, who is largely responsible for endowments benefiting the junior faculty...