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...Furthermore, the Development Office makes a concerted effort to encourage unrestricted donations, gifts that can be used for any expense. In an official brochure promoting the Harvard College Fund, former FAS dean William C. Kirby goes so far to call unrestricted donations “the lifeblood of the College.” Unrestricted gifts, the brochure claims, will go to expanding the freshman seminar program, providing money for senior arts projects, and supporting financial...
...While it may seem odd that yakuza could be hit by budget cuts, they're not immune to government belt-tightening. The construction industry has always been the lifeblood of the yakuza-the gumi in Yamaguchi-gumi is also frequently used to denote construction companies. During Japan's bubble economy in the 1980s, crime lords feasted on the lucrative real estate sector. Yakuza made a mint by intimidating residents into selling their property at below-market prices. Many gangs plowed profits into real estate projects-especially golf courses, which became one of the most mobbed-up industries in Japan. When...
...hoards of curious undergrads and the promise of special events. The live music helped to make last weekend an unqualified success, as one hopes it will continue to do for years to come. But this discussion must reach for loftier climes and address the Pub’s lifeblood: its beer. The bar serves Harpoon IPA, Guinness, and Bud Light, among others, in two-dollar pints. Also on tap is house beer Harpoon 1636, which project manager Zachary A Corker ’04 rightly referred to as a “truly ambrosial brew.” It?...
...assumption proven in Sunni minds by events of recent years that they will be oppressed, or worse, in a Shi'ite-dominated Iraq, many Sunnis are willing to tacitly or actively support violence by Sunni militants and terrorists. So, the militants have the popular support that is the lifeblood of any insurgency because it allows fighters to camouflage themselves in the civilian population. Political sentiment in the Sunni communities leaves the U.S. military and the Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi government forces largely unable to procure the intelligence required to isolate and destroy their hidden tormentors in Baghdad...
...Joseph A. Schumpeter were alive on commencement day, he would no doubt be surprised: The sight of Bill Gates speaking from the steps of Memorial Church to a sea of crimson would puzzle the Austrian economist and former Harvard professor. Schumpeter had predicted that entrepreneurs like Gates, though the lifeblood of a market economy, would only find hostility in halls of academia...