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Harvard fundraisers are closely monitoring the impact of the financial crisis on donations as they prepare for a capital campaign with a tentative launch of 2011, Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Tamara E. Rogers ’74 said in an interview Friday.The long-delayed campaign—once slated for a 2006 or 2007 launch—could be pushed back further if the ongoing crisis causes University fundraising to falter, Rogers said. “We will continue to plan a campaign with a possible launch date of 2011,” Rogers said...
Seth MacFarlane is the writer, producer, and creator of the popular Fox animated comedies Family Guy and American Dad. Both launch their new seasons Sunday, Sept. 28. MacFarlane, who also voices several roles on Family Guy (including that of alcoholic dog Brian) spoke to TIME from Los Angeles...
...Environment. “Gore learned about the climate problem at Harvard, and he goes around telling everyone about it.” The speech is part of Harvard’s Sustainability Celebration, which, according to a news release from Faust’s office, will mark the launch of a new greenhouse gas-reduction initiative, and a celebration of Harvard’s role as an environmental leader. The University aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on campus by 30 percent by 2016. Announced in July, the initiative comes from recommendations made by the Greenhouse Gas Task Force...
...formal launch of SEAS last year, both Charles Vest, former president of MIT, and Subra Suresh, dean of the School of Engineering at MIT, addressed the attendees. In fact, Vest delivered the keynote address...
...when he was pushed from a military helicopter blindfolded after his arrest in 2001. U.S. military officials say that claim has never been substantiated. Unable to work as a cameraman, he was recently assigned to a new human-rights department in Al-Jazeera's Qatar newsroom, which is to launch a weekly human-rights show in Arabic next month. Despite his years in captivity for, he believes, no good reason, Al-Hajj insists he holds no animus towards Americans. "So many Americans wrote to me in Guantánamo. And I have many American friends...