Word: endowment
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...world’s fifth wealthiest man, Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, is donating $20 million to Harvard to expand Islamic studies, the University announced yesterday. The donation will be used to launch a University-wide Islamic studies program and to endow four senior professorships, according to a press release. The gift will also fund a new initiative, the Islamic Heritage Project, which will digitize classic Islamic texts and make them available via the internet. Alwaleed, who is the nephew of the late King Fahd, became the center of controversy shortly after the September...
...play protagonist Orlando Bloom’s aunt. “She could cook and hug and talk and do everything at the same time,” Crowe says, floored by her presence in the kitchen. It’s these sorts of touches that endow the film with genuine Southern charisma and display Crowe’s penchant for detail. “Elizabethtown” signifies a return to more familiar territory for Crowe, whose last film, the 2001 science-fiction adaptation “Vanilla Sky,” was a dramatic departure in material...
...order to get money and support for his foundation, Lynch is touring the country and lecturing about the benefits of the practice. Ultimately, the David Lynch Foundation hopes to raise $7 billion to endow seven universities of world peace across seven countries. According to Bob Roth, vice president of the David Lynch Foundation, “There are war colleges that hope to bring peace through war. We hope to train a new generation that will bring peace through the peace of meditation...
...president and I strongly believe that the long-term solution is to endow the center,” Ellwood said. “And President Summers continues to be helpful in my efforts to raise that endowment...
Members of Harvard’s Class of 1955 have raised over $1.65 million for the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) as part of the 50th reunion gift this year, in order to endow the Executive Director’s position...