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...every $2 given to the PAI, $1 will be taken from the challenge fund and added to the donation. The challenge fund works to attract donors by effectively increasing by 50 percent the donation given in their name...
...PAI was lagging behind other parts of the campaign, administrators said...
...part of its $2.1 billion Capital Campaign, the University is trying to raise $125 million for the discretionary fund, known as the President's Academic Initiative (PAI) fund. To date they have come up with $66 million...
...Adams House performance is a dramatic adaptation of Taiwanese author Pai Hsien-yung's 1984 novel Niezi, translated into English in 1990 as Crystal Boys and acclaimed by the producers as "the first modern Chinese gay novel." An original creation of Weinstein and Yee, the play very clearly comes from a longer prose work. Weinstein and Yee seem to have tried to strike a balance between dramatizing character development and bringing concrete action to the stage, but the latter often works better than the former. Blocks of monologue, rather than quick banter or fast-moving action, mark the development...
...attractions make Crystal Boys worth seeing, especially if the viewer has an interest in exploring a world that seems both familiar and previously unimagined. But for those more patient with prose than drama, perhaps the best way to catch the text's lyrical beauty would be to read Pai Hsienyung's novel...