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Benefiting from the launch of a massive capital campaign, Stanford ranked as the nation’s top fundraising university in fiscal year 2006, taking in almost as much in donations as Harvard and Yale combined...
...Stanford raised over $911 million and Harvard received nearly $600 million—the second-highest amount in the country—as total charitable giving to U.S. universities rose by 9.4 percent to $28 billion...
...contrast, the “Stanford Challenge”—a five-year, $4.3 billion fundraising campaign—publicly launched last October...
Although the numbers have been growing, Harvard still sends a comparatively small number of students abroad. At Stanford, 384 students (out of about 6,700 total) applied to study abroad next fall through its Bing Overseas Studies Program. Nearly 400 students (out of about 10,300 total) studied abroad last fall at George Washington University. With 122 undergrads out of about 6,700 that experienced an international education this past fall, Harvard’s figures seem small in comparison...
...fashion world’s upper echelon mingles, and everyone scans for A-listers in the audience. We spot the casts of “Queer Eye” and “Project Runway,” as well as many men sporting the “Stanford Blatch” look, made famous by the “Sex and the City” character: bald, scarf-wearing, dark plastic glasses. Pulsing Euro beats pump into the small tent, overwhelming the audience as they await the start of the show.Tim M. Gunn, “Project Runway?...