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Animal Woods combines the desperate privations of war with the improbable magic of fable. The poor residents of an Italian village have learned how to cope with the unwelcome incursions of Fascist and German troops. They and their livestock just disappear into the nearby forest...
Except the most important one By keeping the $2.5 million kitty for itself, Harvard is stabbing Stillman in the back. Stillman chose to donate the forest, a mountainous plot on the Hudson River which sports a reservoir and six ponds, to Harvard partially because he was fond of the University. But Stillman mostly chose Harvard because he thought he could trust the University to care for the land and provide the necessary stable environment for forestry and botany experiments. Now Harvard would pull out the money to keep the site in proper shape, and the consortium would have to already...
...University now faces an investigation by the New York Attorney General to see if its attempt to keep the endowment, which is linked to the forest, is legal. And Stillman's son and another Hudson Valley environmentalist are threatening a lawsuit if the University doesn't back down...
...hope it doesn't have to come to that. If Harvard is dead-set on proving that it can shuck its responsibility for the forest, it should produce the documents which show that retaining the $2.5 million endowment is in keeping with the letter--and the spirit--of the original agreement. But right now, most signs seem to indicate that the University has an obligation to turn over the endowment Stillman hoped would preserve his gift...
...first Brandeis goal followed a long throw-in into the packed Crimson penalty area, which then ricocheted off a forest of legs pull Crimson keeper Matt Ginsburg. The Judge took advantage of a mixup in the Harvard defect to add the second goal...