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Billionaire philanthropist Lawrence J. Ellison, the chief executive of the software giant Oracle Corp., said that he will donate $115 million to Harvard for the study of global health initiatives. The gift will become the largest in the history of the University...

Author: By Natalie I. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ellison to Give Harvard $115 Million | 7/1/2005 | See Source »

Squeezed into eight relatively succinct hours, Arthur Hopcraft's adaptation tidies up the sprawling novel a bit. One regrets the loss of a few of Dickens' colorful minor characters, along with much of his humor. (Where, for instance, is Mrs. Jellyby, that ardent philanthropist who ignores her sorry children while campaigning to help the natives of Borrioboola-Gha?) Bleak House was, perhaps, not meant to be quite as bleak as this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Moody Swirl of Dickens: BLEAK HOUSE | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...trajectory, four marriages and innumerable crises leave indelible marks on the face and style. At one taping he finally berates himself--"Drink, drink, drink. Smoke, smoke, smoke. Schmuck, schmuck, schmuck!"--and tries to change his ways. Through it all, the perfectionist raises pop singing to an art, and the philanthropist never quits. How has Ol' Blue Eyes endured and prevailed for five decades? A doctor, naming Sinatra an honorary staff member of a hospital for which he had raised the funds, has the bottom line. The title, he says, is superfluous: "Frank's been operating for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Frank Sinatra, My Father | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Renovated in 1996 with a $7 million donation from philanthropist Katherine B. Loker, the basement space has since struggled to shed its reputation as a study space for students seeking to double-check problem sets and as a place to grab food...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Adds Fun To the Map | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...Limpert declines to describe himself as a philanthropist...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lampy's Limpert Funds Art World | 6/6/2005 | See Source »

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