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Redoubling their efforts to unlock the power of the human genome, philanthropists Eli and Edythe L. Broad yesterday pledged an additional $100 million to the biomedical research center they helped launch a year and a half ago as a joint venture of Harvard and MIT. The new funding to the Broad Institute, which doubles the $100 million originally announced by the billionaire couple in 2003, will be made through Harvard and will be distributed over 10 years. When the initial donation was made to MIT last year, the gift was considered “seed” money...
...many unsolved and very important questions,” Law School Dean Elena Kagan said. “This center will really give us the resources to address these issues and to make a positive contribution to the public debate.”The school received a $10 million joint donation for the project from the Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation and lawyer Joseph H. Flom, a 1948 graduate of the Law School.Einer R. Elhauge ’82, the faculty director of the Petrie-Flom Center, said that the new research program will include study in a broad range...
...Nick & Jessica, which documented their domestic bliss, have finally affirmed what the tabloids have been vigorously suggesting for some time: they're just not that into each other. "After three years of marriage and careful thought and consideration, we have decided to part ways," the couple said in a joint statement that followed months of denials and strained red-carpet appearances. Simpson, whose televised day-to-day vacuity boosted her career, has an album due out in 2006, a handful of movie roles in the works and a hot-selling cosmetics line. Lachey, who left his boy band 98 Degrees...
...become the China head of Dow Jones, dispenses his wisdom through case studies?mostly of how things can go wrong. The story of an investment bank created by Morgan Stanley and the China Construction Bank, for example, shows how a clash of cultures can reduce a joint venture to a dysfunctional set of fiefdoms. But McGregor really hits his stride with his own tale?an epic struggle between Dow Jones and China's Xinhua news agency over the right to dispense financial news. McGregor goes to war against what he calls Xinhua's "thugocracy," playing it off against progressive forces...
...match their earth tones. After one take, he says of the harmony, "I hear it in sky blue. You're giving me brown." Tommy snaps, "That's because you're paying us shit." In desperation they look for guidance from above and see the name of the next joint they're playing, Four Seasons Lounge, in neon against the night sky. In my favorite bit of dialogue from the show, Frankie exclaims, "It's a sign!" (Given all the rim-shot repartee in this show, you'd think that the joint they'd named themselves for would...