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Suffering a decline in popularity largely because of the global financial crisis and Hungary's high levels of unemployment, Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai's Socialist Party suffered a major setback in the country's first round of parliamentary elections on April 11. Although the final allotment of seats won't be determined until after a second round of polling on April 25, the center-right Fidesz party looks to have won 206 spots in the 386-member parliament, while the extremist, far-right Jobbik party, a nationalist group that some accuse of anti-Semitism, won an estimated 26 seats...
Since 1959, Gordon has donated $5.4 million to Harvard, he wrote in an e-mailed statement yesterday...
...receives a request for donations in any given year, Gordon said in the Friday interview that he would be comfortable giving $25,000 of his own money. In an e-mail to Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds and Vice President for Human Resources Marilyn Hausammann, Gordon also threatened to withhold an annual 6 percent disbursement of his father’s trust, whose value he said is contingent on the sale of his father’s apartment but could be valued at around $20 million...
...John R. Gordon ’71, a brother of Gordon ’59 and executor of the trust, said that a decision has not been made regarding how contributions from that trust would be disbursed. The father of a current Harvard College senior, he described himself as someone who has and will continue to personally be a regular donor to Harvard...
...this reason, it would not be appropriate for us to respond specifically to the issues that Mr. Gordon has raised, nor to the issues others have raised at Mr. Gordon’s request,” he wrote. “Please be assured that all of us at Harvard remain committed to treating all employees, students and student-athletes with fairness and dignity...