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...immediate images of a campaign, highlighted in glossy brochures and pat sales pitches, are of posh new buildings and prestigious endowed professorships, but the long term--and less publicized effect--is to indefinitely (or at least until the next campaign) increase one of a university's most important sources of revenue...
Smaller retailers also retain stores in Cambridge and along the Newbury promenade. Boutiques like Aldo, Blades and Newbury Comics appeal to the young and fad-conscious crowd that frequents the area around the University as well as the posh Boston strip...
...dollar, which in turn encouraged Soros to increase his investment; it totals around $250 million. Flush with cash, IRSA has been on a buying spree, investing in everything from a $50 million sports complex to major office buildings to $450 million worth of swank shopping malls. In the posh ski resort of San Carlos de Bariloche in the Andes, IRSA joined with Citicorp to buy the deluxe Hotel Llao Llao, with its spectacular view of Argentina's lake country...
...Monday, at the annual meeting of the National Baptist Convention. The nation's largest black church will try to deal with a scandal involving its president, the Rev. Henry Lyons. Lyons is under fire for a number of sins, foremost of which is using church funds to buy a posh condominium with Bernice Edwards, the church's PR director ? herself a convicted embezzler. Lyons' wife was arrested last month and charged with setting fire to the condo. Meanwhile the reverend, who may also be married to two other women, has enraged black morticians by allegedly taking kickbacks from the Loewen...
About six months ago, Mayor of Cambridge Sheila Doyle Russell and members of the Cambridge School Committee met with Rudenstine in the posh Faculty Club. They left with a baseball cap especially designed for the meeting: It had a veritas shield right above the word "Cambridge," symbolizing the teamwork between the city and the University...