Word: griswold
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...Harvard’s case, they’ve made it work, but there were times when it looked like it wouldn’t... It’s taken a lot of time to get comfortable,” says John S. Griswold, senior vice president of The Commonfund, a mutual fund for institutional investors that was established three years before HMC and currently manages over $26 billion for more than 1,400 colleges, universities, and foundations...
...basic reason is that they’re different,” Griswold says. “They feel they are able to invest in a way that will return them above average returns...
...Griswold says that the Commonfund has seen a drop-off in shareholder responsibility issues in the 1990s, since no single issue dominates anymore, as apartheid did in the 1980s—now concerns are spread more widely over tobacco, alcohol, child and slave labor, and weapons production...
Untimely death is often the only occasion for the public to catch a glimpse of the foster-care system. But there are living hells, and at times you can smell the brimstone a long way off. At others the evils come in disguise. In Gillette, Wyo., Homer and Beth Griswold were pillars of the community who were asked to be foster parents. She was a psychologist, a former member of the child-protection team. Her specialty was identifying sexual abuse. But while Beth baked Halloween cookies upstairs, Homer was downstairs molesting two of the girls in their care. Had anyone...
...caller reported that a suspicious person entered her office in Griswold Hall. The man stated he was looking for a friend. Another employee escorted him from the office...