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...case, funds for financial aid can also come from capital campaigns. Harvard is about to launch a $2.5 billion fund drive. That's a lot of money. Surely some of it can go to make college more affordable for lower-and middle-income students. And if the campaign is successful, Harvard may be able to do it without cutting into programs, facilities and staff...
Robert's will didn't stand up, and the belated discovery of an obscure Iowa statute allowed the executors of the parents' will to give the hospital marketable properties worth $282,000 in lieu of paying Iowa taxes on the estate. The proceeds enabled the hospital to launch its long-planned $1.5 million expansion project...
...staff accurately points out many of the University's failings that Neil L. Rudenstine will have to address as president. Certainly, Harvard's tenure record is disgraceful, falling far short of the systems at its peer insitutions in minority and women faculty hiring. And as the University prepares to launch a massive fundraising campaign, it would do well to guard against the excessive influence of its donors. It would do even better to open its books to public scrutiny...
...National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is entering final negotiations with the local Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory to develop a center for the supervision and guidance of AXAF--Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility--an orbiting x-ray telescope planned for launch...
Until the launch of the telescope in 1998, the observatory will assist in the planning and development of AXAF. After that the observatory will also become a "central clearinghouse" for information sent from the satellite...