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...dismiss what an association with the dead princess can do for those who want to do good. Andrew Morton is best known as the author of Diana: Her True Story, the 1992 biography that revealed - with Diana?s covert blessing - how unhappy she was in her marriage. But he also chairs Response International, which helps war victims in countries like Bosnia, Kosovo and Lebanon. In 2002, the charity received a grant from the Memorial Fund to support land-mine clearance in Pakistan. "Some of the charity workers have to go where literacy rates are low and suspicion of strangers...
...much money they can get out of our pocket and leave us wanting to come back. In response to every marketing strategy hurled our way, we must always ask ourselves, Why? It isn't about what's in it for us but what's in it for them. Carolyn Morton, Barrie, Canada...
...capital campaign to raise $82.5 million—over $575 million today—by Commencement Day of 1959. The drive would be the largest in the history of American higher education, and would mark the first modern fundraising campaign undertaken by a university, according to historian of Harvard Morton Keller. Investment banker Alexander M. White ‘25, a partner in the New York based White, Weld & Company firm, was named general chairman of the program by Pusey in 1956. Working with him would be Thomas S. Lamont ‘21 of J.P. Morgan & Company and David...
...Morton Korn ’57 decided that the HYRC’s extreme right-wing stance was not representative of the general party. At the time, Korn told The Crimson that the HYRC’s actions were “detrimental to the name of Republicanism...
...Kaldor raised over half of Ricky Swallow's $A1.4 million exhibition budget through private and corporate donors; this year he's aiming for $A1.2 million, and as Engberg puts it, "It would be a brave person who would say no to John." Come Nov. 21, when artist Callum Morton's resurrected Melbourne house will again be dismantled, something should remain of Kaldor's vision: what Engberg calls "a long-term legacy of patronage for this kind of ambitious scale of work...