Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Donors would give a minimum of $5000 to the HGF, he said. The Harvard Management Company (HMC) would invest the money and donors or their beneficiaries would receive approximately 2.5 to 3 per cent interest on their gift annually...
Donors must pay taxes on the interest they receive although in most cases part of the gift itself is deductible, he said...
According to Crowley, the latest mover at the Paperback Booksmith, aside from "Humboldt's Gift" by Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, has been a book titled the "Cat Catalogue" by Judy Fireman. "I guess it is about everything you always wanted to know about cats," Crowley says. "I don't know why it's so popular. I haven't read it, but I suppose you'd have to say people like cats. We can't keep enough of the books on the table...
While ostensibly protesting Harvard's acceptance of a South Korean grant, the December 14 letter by Robina Fraser of the Spartacus Youth League reflects the the same deviousness and dishonesty that it attributes to the University. Regardless of the political and moral considerations involving South Korea's gift to the East Asian Studies Department, the abundance of empty slogans and pseudo-intellectual phrases in Ms. Fraser's letter only succeeds in further obscuring these issues...
...controversy over the South Korean Trade Association's gift of $1 million to the East Asian Studies Department has sparked a chorus of denials, rationalizations, and hypocritical buck-passing from the Harvard administration, anxious to preserver its facade of liberal enlightenment. The KTA, closely tied to the Korean CIA, has been the conduit for funds from the right-wing Park dictatorship to influential policy-making institutions like Harvard in an attempt to buy further American economic and military aid. Park's regime has carried out massive executions and merciless tortures of those who dare to protest the miserably impoverished lives...