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...Prince Turki bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, of Saudi Arabia, endowed a professorship of immunology at Harvard Medical School In October 1990. The amount of the gift was not disclosed, but it usually costs about $2 million to endow a full professorship...
...King Fahd bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, of Saudi Arabia, gave Harvard $5 million to support the study of Islamic law. The donation, announced last month, will endow a professorship and fund legal research...
Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, said in a statement that the gift is "part of the King's effort to serve Islam worldwide." The donation was announced June...
Prominent former custodians of public trust can also help defuse image problems that threaten to snarl deals. For example, Carlyle became the adviser to Saudi Prince al-Waleed bin Talal in his $590 million investment in Citicorp in 1991. The firm subsequently teamed with France's state-owned Thomson-CSF to outbid U.S. defense giants for the missile and aircraft divisions of LTV last year. Such global connections can be controversial. "The one significant problem for Carlyle is that they've been on the foreign side of controversial transactions," says a Washington lobbyist and rival dealmaker. But Carlyle...
Deere & Co. listened to protests and pulled catalog ads for a "schizophrenic" power mower, putting in its place a public service ad ; that read, "The most shocking thing about mental illness is how little people understand about it." Wordstar took "loony bin," "booby hatch" and "funny farm" out of its thesaurus list of synonyms for "institution...