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...constantly expanding, Watertown also relies heavily on the tax revenue from the Arsenal complex. As a non-profit organization, Harvard would be protected from paying tax on the property by Massachusets law. In fairness to the town, if Harvard decides to purchase the Arsenal, the University should negotiate a generous payment-in-lieu-of-tax (PILOT) agreement with Watertown...
...residents of Cambridge and other communities become increasingly unhappy with the University's actions, it would behoove Harvard to give Watertown a generous PILOT. We do not begrudge the University its space, but it is not in the University's interest to appear as a community villain rather than benefactor--especially after having recently purchased land in Allston. With Cambridge city counselors calling for increased payments from Harvard and MIT, the University must demonstrate that it is truly committed to a socially responsible position in local affairs. Harvard can afford the loss of a couple million dollars a year...
Harvard's competitors also offer perks such as reduced teaching loads and more generous leave policies, incentives that Harvard refuses to offer...
...George Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas, reveals its most generous patrons on a gray marble wall in the foyer. When the center, located at Texas A&M University, was being erected, money flowed in from as far away as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, places that had good reason to thank the 40th president of the United States. But for one donor of at least $100,000 - Texas oilman Edwin L. Cox, Sr. - gratitude may have been closer to home...
...likeness to Clinton's acts of clemency is limited. The bank fraud for which Cox pleaded guilty is not seen as heinous as the cocaine-dealing conviction of Carlos Vignali, whose prison term was commuted by Clinton and who was also the son of a generous donor. Unlike the fugitive Rich, Cox acknowledged his wrongdoing and served time for it. Despite a hurried review by the Justice Department, Bush's team did not bypass it as Clinton's often did. No one politically linked to Bush is known to have been paid to pursue the Cox clemency. And Bush...