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Rumford's resting place is just one of Harvard's many off-campus real estate holdings left to them by wealthy benefactors. Included among the School's 17 million-square-foot empire are a 16th century villa near Florence, Italy, a 19th century brick mansion in Washington, D.C., two 3000 acre forests, three summer houses in Maine, a backwoods boathouse in Connecticut and an observatory in Texas...
...quest for fulfillment usually begins with donations to a few selected charities pledging aid to assorted human and animal unfortunates. These donations provide a quick patch for bothersome guilt and ailing self-esteem, especially when the hordes of monogrammed recognition plaques start rolling in. Unfortunately, richies can line the mansion walls with only so many plaques before they are considered gauche. Then depression usually resumes...
...year is 1964. At her mansion in Orlando, Margery Post, the immensely rich only child of the man who invented Grape-Nuts, asks a friend, "Milly, if you had one place on earth where you finally felt comfortable, would you let the Disneys build a park in your backyard?" Milly happens to be a trusted associate of the ice cream and motel magnate Howard Johnson, who is also in Orlando, hoping to stop the Disneys. "I think we could take them," he tells her. "I think we can move into vacations...
Midnight had arrived and most of the dinner guests were gone, but on the & terrace of a beige stucco mansion in Johannesburg, a dozen black men and women lingered over coffee and liqueurs, their chairs tightly ringing the table. They spoke with obvious emotion and leaned forward to hear the responses. The focus of their attention, listening more than he talked, was Edward Perkins, the first black U.S. Ambassador to South Africa. For three hours he traded thoughts with civic leaders from Soweto, the black township outside Johannesburg...
...words about pope to the section leader in order to make sure that he remembers my name. A good grade in a bullshit course like this might look good on my resume, and might possibly convince potential employers that I have what it takes to own a mansion and a yacht...