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...with Princeton Review’s new book, Parents’ Guide to College Life, can be accessed on the Princeton Review website. NYU announced on Tuesday the receipt of a $200 million bequest to endow an Ancient Studies program. This donation is more than double the largest single gift ever received by Harvard—$70.5 million from the Loeb Family...
...Cambridge City Council voted at its meeting last night to appropriate a $1.3 million-dollar gift from Harvard for the Harvard Square Enhancement Project. The city’s project, which faced funding difficulties, aims to make the Square more pedestrian-friendly. Harvard’s gift will help fund the installation of a walk signal by Johnston Gate and sidewalk and street enhancements by the Lampoon castle and on Palmer, Winthrop, and JFK Streets. Councillor Henrietta Davis joked that she was happy to praise Harvard for a change. “This is a really important pedestrian project...
...official report on our national flaws, describing Filipinos as "passive, unreflective, undisciplined and prone to loyalty toward personalities rather than institutions or ideals." Seen in another light, we might be regarded as resilient, spontaneous, flexible and sentimental. TIME credited People Power as the Filipino contribution to history, "a true gift to the world." But even before that, Filipinos wrote Asia's first constitution and proclaimed its first republic. The monuments to the People Power revolution on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue offer a hint of the democratic achievements of the Philippines, but its citizens are capable of accomplishing even more...
...Glory Days" described the rise and fall of the People Power revolution and the individuals who were behind it. A gift to the world that is uniquely our own, People Power was used and abused until its true essence was degraded. To say Filipino history repeats itself is an understatement. What's happening nowadays to the country clearly indicates that history strikes back with a vengeance. The inability of some Filipinos to learn from the past holds back the entire country, including the many who just want to move on. Raphael Causapin Manila...
TIME's report on the foiled plot to overthrow the government in the Philippines noted that the coup was to be announced during the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the People Power revolution that toppled Ferdinand Marcos [March 6]. A gift to the world uniquely our own, People Power has been used and abused until its true essence is degraded. To say that Filipino history repeats itself is an understatement. What's happening nowadays to the country clearly indicates that history strikes back with a vengeance. The inability of some Filipinos to learn from the past holds back...