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News of the sale of the Maine homes followed rumors of a transaction involving another restricted gift: the 99-acre Harvard Forest in Hamilton, Mass, located about 30 miles northeast of the Cambridge campus...
Stability had been Suharto's gift to his country. He had come to power at the head of a junta of generals in 1965, overthrowing the country's flamboyant and charismatic first president, Sukarno, whose friendship with Beijing and predeliction for Communists in the government had brought the country to the brink of economic collapse and civil war. Ensconced in power, Suharto proceeded to purge the country of Communism and anyone suspected of Communist sympathy. No one knows how many died. One estimate has it at 500,000 - among them many Indonesians of Chinese descent. The Communist Party was outlawed...
...benefits, marriage is not a gift certificate for good health. For one thing, it's fattening. According to a CDC study of health and marriage, married people, while least likely to be physically inactive, are most likely to be overweight or obese. Married men, in particular, seem to pack on the pounds after they say their vows: they are nearly 20% more likely to be overweight or obese than are men who have never married--perhaps because they simply have someone to sit down to dinner with each night or perhaps because the often empty refrigerator of a onetime bachelor...
Harvard said this week that it had no plans to sell a graduate’s 99-acre gift to the Harvard Forest, after reports of a potential sale of the Hamilton, Mass., property drew concern from local environmentalists...
Matthews’ will conditioned the gift on Harvard holding and maintaining the property as “an experimental station in forestry for the benefit of all persons and institutions in New England that may be interested in such matters...