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...best, and financed programs for the poor, aids patients and drug addicts. Last February, when the Catholic Church was looking for funds to renovate a mountain clinic for asthmatic children, Monsignor Franco Grisenti only needed to ask, and his old friend Tanzi, 65, immediately made an interest-free loan of €400,000. "He's got that impulse in him to just say yes," the prelate marvels. Not all of Tanzi's impulses may have been so noble. On Dec. 27, Tanzi was arrested and later charged with fraudulent bankruptcy and false accounting. He is confined to a Milan jail...
...legislature in 1954 and went on to serve five terms in the House of Representatives and two in the U.S. Senate. He made an ill-fated run for the presidency in 1988, dropping out after winning only his home state's primary. As Senator, he revamped the federal student-loan program, fought for a balanced-budget amendment and worked to limit violence on television, maintaining all along that government "is not the enemy...
Republicans—with complacent Democrats at their side—have evidently stumbled upon the golden era in politics in which the prevailing wisdom is more programs and fewer taxes. Congress is taking a loan from its kids to have its cake and eat it too. Together, a lagging economy, $350 billion in tax cuts, $400 billion in Medicare reform, and $20 billion for new schools (in Iraq), new hospitals (in Iraq), and a new energy grid (in Iraq) have made Bush a master magician of disappearing surpluses. As Baby Boomers approach retirement age in the next decade, rising...
Some of the Peabody’s collection of artifacts is currently on loan to the Missouri Historical Society for the bicentennial celebration of Lewis and Clark’s expedition, which will be commemorated at Harvard as well, through a series of lectures, musical performances, craft demonstrations...
...make good on the environmental commitment he made to Sustainable Allston. Indeed, Harvard is not a rookie in the campaign to preserve the environment. Shad Hall at Harvard Business School sports solar panels built this year, thanks to a grant from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative and an interest-free loan from the Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI). HGCI holds $3 million in funds that it lends out for environment-oriented improvements like the one atop Shad...