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...higher education. Grassley has criticized colleges and universities for “hoarding” growing endowment returns instead of spending more on financial aid. But he did praise a slew of financial aid increases last year from the nation’s wealthiest universities, including a $22-milion expansion at Harvard, as “self-correcting.” Harvard and other schools with billion-dollar endowments have fought efforts to legislate payout rates, saying that donor restrictions and inconsistent returns require more flexibility than a mandate would allow. “We must balance...
...facelift, which cost $44 milion, has blown the cobwebs off. A giant spyhole has been cut in the first floor to reveal two levels at once. The 3,000 exhibits, dating from 1500 to 1900, are assembled by topics such as birth, family and death. Baby things, wedding gowns and funeral tapestries bring people of the past back to life. And it's no longer "Look, don't touch." Visitors can assemble an 18th century chair or try their hands at tapestry weaving...
...outspoken and remarkably accessible executive is founder and chair of the Warren Companies and Warren Equities. Inc., a pair of food and petroleum conglomerates with annual revenues of $600 milion...
Alpert a member of the Medical School's Board of Fellows and former president of the Harvard Business School Club of New York has a personal net worth estimated at $200 milion...
Geller and Huchra, using a telescope and radio waves, determined that at 500 milion light years the Great Wall is over 5000 times larger than our own Milky Way galaxy...