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Uemura, who died of acute pneumonia on Dec. 29 in Tokyo at the age of 79, sold controlling interest in his self-named brand to the French cosmetics giant L'Oreal for an undisclosed but enormous sum in 2003. But he continued to be the driving creative force behind the company. Until recently, Uemura twice-a-year personally demonstrated his makeup skills in public, showing off the latest in his Mode Makeup collections in Tokyo, London and sometimes New York City...
...April 18, 2007, Harvard affiliates had donated a sum of $150,000 to 2008 presidential candidates. When The Chronicle reported its findings on Dec. 21, Harvard employees had given $281,050, an amount more than double that donated by the runner...
...watch any NFL game. Goodell attempted a beautiful end around by offering the Pats-Giants game to Time Warner Cable and Cablevision in return for all parties entering into binding arbitration to resolve the carriage issue. But the cable guys weren't biting at the prospect of a zero-sum outcome...
...Wayne Grigsby, who commands a U.S. Army brigade in Madain, said that they were not turning volunteers away. Instead, a lump sum is provided by U.S. military to local Iraqi leaders that is then divided among all the CLCs. The intent is to encourage Iraqis to keep the number of CLCs down, so that each man's salary does not suffer. Instead, men like Jabouri have divided the money among an ever-growing number of volunteers (resulting in some fighters' receiving just $70 a month), and then lobbying the U.S. military and the Iraqi government for more financial assistance...
...reasons why people with a median upper-middle class income might not have liquid assets, including reoccurring medical bills or a large number of dependents. Does that make a family not worthy of financial aid? It is not like Harvard financial aid is operating on a zero-sum basis—more financial aid for the affluent does not mean less for the poor and lower to middle classes. In fact, lately, it has meant more for all of the above. Given that, and the enormity of the endowment, it is hard to argue that we should deny...