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Fundraisers use a formula to construct a multimillion dollar gift like the 35th reunion donation the whole class will make to the Harvard College Fund this year. First, the reunion gift chairs actively solicit two or three gifts of $1 million or more, which often requires cross-country travel to stroke and cajole prospective donors. With those gifts in hand, fundraisers nationwide go after donations in the $10,000 to $100,000 range. Other fundraisers, whose focus is participation, launch phone drives to pick up minor contributors...
...President was trying to focus, he introduced an $8 billion city-renewal plan, legislation for campaign-finance reform, a scaled-back immunization program and prepared to send up a pared-down stimulus package. He is as slow to criticize his staff as to end a meeting, as quick to solicit advice as to ignore it, and he has a weakness for imposing unrealistic deadlines on himself. He admitted to this final failing last week, remembering that it was his self-imposed Christmas deadline on filling his Cabinet that led him to pick Zoe Baird as Attorney General. When he decided...
Emphatic about winning a skeptical Europe's support for military action, Clinton sent Christopher speeding across the Atlantic to solicit agreement or amendment before making his plan fully public. Meanwhile, the Bosnian Serbs moved to parry the building offensive. They agreed to attend a weekend peace conference in Athens with the other parties to the Vance-Owen peace plan and said their so-called parliament would meet on May 5 to reconsider a proposed settlement. "They must do more than simply sign a peace plan," Christopher warned at his Saturday briefing. "It will take actions on the ground to convince...
Ethologist Marc Bekoff of the University of Colorado agrees: "I have no doubt that my dog Jethro experiences beliefs about the outcome of his actions, expectations about the future. He has goals. If he tries to solicit play and I don't play with him, he is surprised -- and he looks it. It's just wrong to say dogs don't have thoughts and beliefs about their world just because these might be different from our beliefs...
Several swastikas appeared November in the elevator of the Mather House tower, prompting students to solicit signatures on a statement condemning the graffiti