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Fourteen months after announcing that Harvard will launch its most ambitious capital campaign to date, University officials are drafting plans, meeting with top donors, and ramping up fundraising efforts during a “quiet phase” that’s anything but quiet...
...quiet phase isn’t all talk. In anticipation of the public kickoff, the University is seeking sizable donations from top contributors. According to Rapier, universities typically raise 20 to 30 percent of a campaign’s total during a two-year quiet period. Harvard, however, may take more time to gear up before the public phase. “This is obviously an enormous undertaking,” Rapier said. “Because of that, we probably will have a longer quiet phase than other organizations might...
...There is the aspect to be part of urban design. I love creating within a city. … I dreamed my pieces, I tried to imagine what would feel right in that place,” he says of his development of “Quiet Cornerstone...
Bambi stripped at Harvard once. The guys, not far from her age, were quiet, dressed in tuxedoes, their hands clasped on their knees. The whole thing seemed like an initiation, but this was a long time ago; she doesn’t remember where it happened. During the show, they were polite, she says, but apparently unremarkable. Beyond the tuxedoes, she doesn’t remember much about them...
Meanwhile, Lexi sits by the window, quiet. Asked what’s on her mind, she blows smoke in white puffs and recites her dream from the night before. She was running around a mansion owned by her in-laws, holding a baby and searching for a room large enough for the two of them...