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...conservative John M. Olin Foundation, for instance, allocated more than $12 million in grants to universities last year, says executive director James Pierson. Although Harvard was not the largest recipient of those awards, the University still claimed its fair share...
...Olin's annual report notes that Harvard took in about $500,000 from the foundation for research in topics including Russian research, law, economics, government and sociology...
...Olin awarded fellowships to Eaton Professor of the Science of Government Samuel P. Huntington and Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 among others...
Looking at the foundation's current interests, Pierson says the organization concentrates on economics, law and foreign affairs. Some of its other recent projects have included an Olin chair in legal studies fo Judge Robert H. Bork, a failed Reagan nominee for the Supreme Court, and a grant to the conservative Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Foundation to study child care issues...
...addition, Olin gave The Dartmouth Review $100,000 in 1988 to help finance a law suit, and gave $500,000 to the Heritage Foundation, a Washington D.C. conservative thinktank, to study public policy and political economy...