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...mighty endowment shrink last year from $2.9 billion to $2.1 billion, its administrators decided a few months ago to cut staff 10%. The Met is not alone. Endowments have shrunk everywhere, and sizable budget cuts have been the rule at museums in Atlanta, Baltimore, Denver, Detroit, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and San Diego. In February the 35-year-old Las Vegas Art Museum simply gave up and shut its doors for good...
...Budweiser is a much bigger, better-known brand. "Why is such a huge company aligning itself with pornography?" asks Michael Solomon, a marketing professor at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. "Because Budweiser must have calculated it was worth the risk to alienate some people, if they could reach their core buyers." (Watch TIME's video "Beer Pong Strikes Back...
...example of the public health impact of cohorts is knowledge about the heart-clogging effects of trans fat, something common in processed foods. Information gleaned in part from Harvard cohorts led to mandatory trans fat food labeling in 2006, and its subsequent ban from restaurants in New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Cambridge and California...
...Marshall said, adding that the Russian government used U.S.-USSR exchange programs as opportunities to spread propaganda.Notwithstanding, the Russian delegates received a hearty welcome in Cambridge—their first stop in their month-long voyage along the northeastern U.S., with stops including Penn Yan, N.Y., Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City.Partly due to the success of the delegation’s visit, such exchanges became more frequent, allowing for greater understanding between the two countries, according to the delegation’s interpreter, Edward W. Keane ’57.Fifty years later, tension between the former USSR...
...even more land to the tax-exempt University didn’t sit well with some Cambridge and Massachussetts government officials. The MTA did not pay taxes on the land, but there were some bidders who would.In 1959, in addition to Harvard’s offer, a group of Philadelphia insurance companies told the Cambridge City Council that they, in conjunction with Cambridge realtor Rodney W. Long ’22, wanted to acquire the MTA land in order to construct a $50 million apartment complex on the yards.BATTLING ‘BIG AL’Vellucci was a major...