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After Harvard’s last capital campaign, which raised a record-breaking $2.6 billion ($3.4 billion in today’s dollars)—then the largest in the history of higher education—the University had intended to gear up for another campaign in 2006 or 2007. But the 2006 resignation of then-University President Lawrence H. Summers effectively put those plans on hold...
This year’s fundraising total was aided by a number of large donations, most notably a $125 million gift over the next five years—the largest in Harvard’s history—from Business School graduate Hansjörg Wyss to fund the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in Allston. Gifts of over $1 million accounted for over 40 percent of the cash total...
...economic and social progress is the self.” The more women are able to fight discrimination and think critically, the more they can contribute to solving the world’s problems. All that needs to be done is to tap into the world’s largest population of unused talent...
Americans have already received the largest allotment of tickets ever for the U.S. in a nonhosted Winter Games, and they want more. Mark Lewis, president of Jet Set Sports, whose CoSport subsidiary handles ticketing for the USOC, says more than 80,000 individual tickets have been sold so far. The final phase of ticket sales will being in mid-September, and fans who want tickets should go to cosport.com "It's certainly not too late," says Lewis. Nor is it too late to book hotel reservations. "There will be rooms available, and more are opening up," says Walt Judas, vice...
...unsafe for Indian students. Students claimed the attacks were racially motivated, but police and government authorities maintained they were mainly opportunistic. Tensions also spread to Sydney, with protests erupting at Harris Park, in the city's west, where many of the assaults took place. Indian students are the second largest group of foreign students in Australian after those from China...