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...letter from the Fellows of the Corporation—suggested that the president’s exit may have been less than graceful. In that story, The Gazette reported: “Since his appointment five years ago, Summers has spurred attention to renewing the undergraduate experience, guided the launch of innovative interdisciplinary initiatives in the sciences and beyond, and strongly expanded Harvard’s international agenda... During his presidency, Harvard has achieved dramatic faculty growth, undertaken major investments in an array of new facilities, and taken the first concrete steps toward building Harvard’s extended campus...
...state-of-the-art scientific facilities in Allston will be expensive, and some say they are wary that the University—already engaged in numerous construction projects in Cambridge—will stretch its resources too thin once it begins construction.A major capital campaign originally set to launch in 2006 was delayed last spring and is unlikely to begin before a new president is chosen, an acknowledgment that major donors will be reluctant to commit resources without knowing who will be at the helm.“It is traditional to have conducted a major fundraising campaign before starting...
...worked with 12 research projects at eight different universities to raise $2 million in ALS funding. But now Kremer and Boaz have their eyes set on five times that amount. After Kremer and Boaz heard of the the Ansari X Prize—a $10 million competition to launch a piloted spacecraft into space twice within two weeks in 2004—Kremer said they decided to create a company based on the same business model.“One of the big problems with ALS is that there are not a lot of novel treatment ideas coming from...
...million. So party advisors are telling local candidates to stay on the phone constantly to raise money. They're advising them that no matter how strong their poll numbers they need to be mentally and financially prepared for August, when Democrats think Republicans will launch millions in negative ads against individual candidates...
...intend such modesty to be disarming, but the runaway scale of the Kos phenomenon can make it seem disingenuous. Not only are the site and the upcoming convention named after him, but many of the individual contributors have also sought to launch their own blogs using the Kos moniker. Moulitsas is now attempting to protect his identity with a trademark. "Would you call a site ?Texas Michael Moore?? ?Boston Chomsky?? That?s MY NAME." Variations on it - not protected legally, one assumes - abound. Yearly Kos participants raised funds by selling a book about the "Kosmos," and contributors to the site...