Word: gifting
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...forgive. But her decision to resign, like her interview last week, was first and foremost a rare show of honesty. Forgiveness, she reminds us, is not something you can turn on like a tap. At its purest, setting both victim and antagonist free, it is truly a miraculous gift...
...research will not be limited to developing countries, though they traditionally have been the CID’s main focus. Hausmann also said that the fund would help CID’s financial situation, which was already in a “very strong position” before the gift. Through projects with several groups—including the South African government and the World Bank—the center has been able to consolidate its budget and create a surplus for this year, according to Hausmann. The CID was founded in 1998 by the Harvard Institute for International Development...
Sarah J. Friedell, director of media relations for the Alumni Affairs and Development Office, declined to reveal whether or not these controversies from the past came up in the negotiations over Alaweed’s gift...
Soon after the November press release announcing the Harvard gift, New York Congressman Anthony D. Weiner wrote a letter to University President Lawrence H. Summers insisting the prince had direct ties to terrorism by virtue of his membership in a government that preaches reactionary Islam. “It seems like this money has Jewish blood on it” Harvard Students for Israel President Amy M. Zelcer ’07 told The Crimson in December...
...press release, the program will comprise four new professorships, including an endowed chair in Islamic Life and Thought named after the prince, and a new Islamic Heritage Project which will “preserve and digitize historically significant Islamic materials.” Rapier explains that the gift will be paid over four years, but in terms of its allocation, “[Alwaleed] has very much left it up to us.” And, despite these seemingly extensive plans, who the professors will be and which Harvard faculty they join, as well as what potential courses will...