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...confidence and her persona to the Democratic National Convention, wowing everyone with her silver hair and stiletto tongue. Her famous poke at then Vice President George H.W. Bush - "Poor George. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth" - prompted talk of a national role someday and a gift from Bush in the form of a silver charm, shaped like a foot...
...from prostitutes, several recipients of his donations distanced themselves from the New York billionaire. But though Epstein wrote a $6.5 million check to Harvard—with the possibility of additional millions down the line—the University said yesterday that it has no plans to return the gift. The donation, first announced in 2003, finances the work of mathematical biologist Martin A. Nowak, the director of Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. Epstein agreed to consider raising his total contribution to $30 million after a review of the program’s progress. That review...
...While gift receipts to Harvard Business School in 2006 totaled only $57 million—a 54 percent decline from the previous year, when the final year of a capital campaign helped to boost the B-School bounty—Harvard said that other parts of the University “more than offset” the decline. Gifts to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences rose 15 percent...
Interim President Derek C. Bok said in May that he expects to see a temporary drop in gift-giving over the coming year as donors wait for a permanent president to take office...
After the industrialist Charles R. Crane purchased the bells from the Soviet Union, he presented them as a gift to University President A. Lawrence Lowell in 1930. Lowell House, then under construction, had its tower redesigned to fit the bells...