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...Gordon describes these meetings, which draw between 300 and 400 couples, as a prime fund-raising ground for repeat givers. While there is no set criteria for an invitation, a "dedication to Harvard" is needed and the individuals are either large donors or fund-raisers...
Some events are reserved for members of the President ($25,000) or Associate ($10,000) giving levels. The cocktail parties at such events are where "the real action occurs," according to Gordon, and the location of many key individual fundraiser/donor conversations...
Another common method, according to Gordon, is for a dean or a prominent faculty member to hold a dinner in a city such as New York and invite seven couples or so to discuss the University and its future. These events make donors feel like they are helping to run Harvard, Gordon adds...
...significant contributor is probably guaranteed one meeting with the president if he or she wants it, Gordon says. "But if they want to have another one, they had better not waste it," he adds...
...young man growing up on a vast Montana ranch early in this century, Tristan is unduly influenced by One Stab (Gordon Tootoosis), the Native American who narrates the tale in movie Indianspeak -- stilted language with ( many references to nature ("It was in the moon of the red grass," he says solemnly when he wants to date something). Tristan takes to cutting out the hearts of fallen prey to free their spirit and develops a lifelong, mutually unhealthy relationship with a grizzly bear. He never fully escapes the call of the primitive, but at a certain point he does begin carrying...