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Income from the endowment is used to supplement not only ticket sales and Harvard's subvention, but also annual fundraising from federal and state agencies, foundations, corporations and individuals totalling some $1.5 million, plus touring expenses, tuition and fees from the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, concessions, royalties and other earned revenue. Earned revenue from all sources combined covers approximately 60 percent of the budget. Contributions and grants, including Harvard's annual subvention of some $359,000, must cover the remaining 40 percent for ART to operate at break-even. ART has been operating at break-even or better since...
...Republican Party's current center of gravity, National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft has moved his boss to the center by calling him a "Rockefeller Republican." To the Republican right, those are fighting words. So repugnant was Nelson Rockefeller's pragmatic moderation that they forced him from Gerald Ford's ticket in 1976. "Look at most of the ((Bush)) Cabinet and White House staff," says George Clark, the former New York State Republican leader who supported Reagan in 1980 against the preferences of the state party's dominant Rockefeller wing. "The more I see and read -- and I hope...
...package of fringe benefits cushy enough to provoke the envy of all but the best compensated private executives. Plenty of the perks go well beyond generous pensions and insurance: cheap haircuts in subsidized House and Senate hair salons; free entry to a members-only gymnasium; special license tags permitting ticket-free parking anyplace in Washington except in front of fire hydrants, fire stations and loading docks; at-home access to long-distance telephone lines over which the member or his family can call without charge...
Even worse, sheltering academically deficient students throughout high school and college gives them the destructive perception that their athletic ability will always grant them success without academic achievment. Except for the miniscule number who become professionals, college athletes will eventually discover that athletic ability alone is not a ticket to success in the rigorous real world...
...Bruce concert? No, it was for the game, which was the hottest ticket in the North Country last weekend...