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Seventy-five percent of the campaign total has come from gifts of over $1million. The largest gift received--$72 million from John F. Loeb--was one of 40 eight-figure gifts raked in by the University, two more than it expected to raise. More strikingly, Harvard came up with more than 100 extra contributions of between $1 and $5 million, yielding almost all of the surplus fundraising...
...under fire for her pro-choice beliefs. First, Cardinal Bernard Law '53, Archbishop of Boston, accused her of anti-Catholic bias for enforcing a Harvard regulation that professors not use University stationery to put forth personal political opinions. And now that the Cardinal has publicly withdrawn his opposition, Massachusetts' largest pro-life organization, Citizens for Life, is protesting Marshall's nomination on the grounds that she once sat on the board of Crittenton Hastings House, a home for unwed mothers that provides abortions. Marshall's position on abortion shouldn't be an issue (nevermind that abortion is still legal...
...parliamentary seats according to projections released Thursday, his 24-party coalition may be bedeviled by the same fractiousness that brought down his last government in May. If anything, the results confirmed the trend away from the two dominant parties in the world's largest democracy. "Some observers had expected a swing back to the two large national parties, but this result was a resounding endorsement of coalition politics," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "With a 15- or 20-seat majority, Vajpayee?s government can once again be held to ransom by smaller parties with narrow agendas." The outlook...
...real problem may have been his city?s fans. L.A. certainly had plenty going for it, namely television. With broadcast deals skyrocketing at least as fast as franchise fees, TV is the best source of the league?s long-term revenues, and Los Angeles is the nation?s second largest media market; Houston is the 11th. Both cities have shed teams in recent years ? the Oilers left Houston in 1996, and both the Rams (in 1995) and Raiders (in 1994) have found it too hard to make a go of it in L.A. But it was McNair that came...
Under the large yellow crane that has been hovering over Widener Library since the summer, Harvard is equipping its largest library with climate control, new electrical wiring, new carrels and two additional reading rooms--in total a $50-million project...