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...Spec notes that blueberry muffins were "packaged in special Columbia Campaign wrappers," clearly as a signal to potential donors that they're money will not be wasted. There's also a news analysis, slugged "IMPLICATIONS," that places the campaign in the broader context of higher-education development...
...worth noting that both campaigns have been underway for some time, in what fundraisers like to call the "quiet phase." The Spec doesn't have it, but Columbia announced today that it has already raised $1.6 billion since quietly launching in July 2004. Yale, aiming lower, is expected to report $500 million to $1 billion in already-secured donations over the past three years, according to an "administration official...
...FREE SPEECH battle is on at Columbia, where the athletic department has put the men's club hockey team on ice after a recruitment flier—"STOP BEING A PUSSY," it urged—offended students. The latest in the Spec's blanket coverage is a salvo from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which asked that the team be reinstated. A Spec editorial calls the flier "tasteless" but the punishment "excessive." A columnist also comes to the team's defense. Surprisingly, nobody calls the athletic department pussies...
...real estate is what got you where you are today, hold on to your residence if you can but consider shedding any real estate investment trusts, spec homes, mortgaged rental properties and maybe even the beach house. "A lot of people look at a pie chart of their assets and find that real estate is a very large wedge," says Skip Massengill, managing director of Commerce Capital Markets, a financial planner. "Yet they may not have any idea what could happen if a bunch of properties come on the market." Hint: prices typically fall...
...beguiled me with his opening sentence: "I'm the guy they hired to f___ up your book." He had read the book, written a screenplay on spec (i.e., without financial guarantees) and sent it to Mel over the transom. Mel read the script and called Jason from his private jet--presumably flying from one bankruptcy court to another--to say it was brilliant and exactly the script he had hoped for and he would absolutely make it. And that was the last Jason Reitman ever heard from...