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...other hand, one expects faculty to monitor their own profession. For example, Harvard recently announced a $20 million gift from a member of the Saudi royal family. The gift is targeted for the study of Islam, and may legitimately enhance the University’s research in that area. Yet, without prejudging the uses to which the gift will be put, there is reason for careful scrutiny of this funding: Saudi Arabia exports and pays for the spread abroad of some of the most virulent forms of Islamism. Last year the Center for Religious Freedom (a division of Freedom House...
...Stone. Notable quotation: Catwoman: “You see, sometimes I’m good. Oh, I’m very good. But sometimes I’m bad. But only as bad as I wanna be. Freedom is power. To live a life untamed and unafraid is the gift that I’ve been given, and so my journey begins.” Yet, regardless of these critical flops (and be glad you were spared “Gothika”), let’s face it: There will never be a better Bond girl. Eat that, Denise...
...force them on the administration as long as the President and Corporation fail to give real power to the ACSR to actively monitor Harvard’s portfolio. Bitter and divisive fights with students and alumni are not worth the cost—last year’s Senior Gift controversy as well as the shantytown protests over apartheid at commencements in the 1980s could have been avoided if a body like the ACSR were continuously screening investments...
...used to establish professorships for both current professors and new hires.“It is going to be a terrific effort,” said Donella M. Rapier, vice president for alumni affairs and development.When donors give $3 million for faculty development, the Challenge Fund will match these gifts with $1 million. The fund will match $1.5 million gifts with $500,000. Six donors, including University Treasurer James F. Rothenberg ’68, who helped to develop the fund, donated the $50 million that comprise it.The donors made their gifts “without strings...
...falling in the wilderness.That leaves us one month, 28 days, from the opening tip of March Madness. And that leaves 26 days between this Saturday night and that first NCAA contest.Why is this pedantic babble important?Well, because by Saturday night, Penn should have the bow tacked onto the gift-wrapped NCAA bid that goes to the Ivy League’s regular season champion. The Quakers will still have some work to do to make it all tidy and mathematically official, but if they can sweep two teams that they combined to beat by 72 one month ago, they?...