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...Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation is funding a fellowship program in social entrepreneurship supported by a $10 million gift; Reynolds is not an alumna...
Returns for fiscal year 2005 were exceeded only by those of 2001, in which Harvard raised $714 million, adjusting for inflation. Rapier attributed that year’s total to several unusually large gifts, including a $50 million gift from the Ford Foundation and four other gifts which met or exceeded $25 million...
...town of Attleboro has aggressively adopted the Meehan-Hoos. Locals have given them $600 in Old Navy gift cards and $60 in Borders certificates. A nearby inn has donated a romantic dinner for two for the couple. A coffee shop will deliver a pastry tray every week, "from now until whenever," according to Kim Allard, a city councilor who has helped arrange donations. "It's unbelievable," says Yolanda. "I told Jan, 'There's no way we can ever move out of this town...
Rolando Hortaleza BEAUTY KING He used his wedding-gift cash to start his cosmetics company in a garage 20 years ago, and he had to bribe Manila's sidewalk vendors to sell his products, but since then, Hortaleza, CEO of Splash Corp., has cleaned up well. His firm's revenues have jumped 66%, to $90 million, over the past two years, and Splash now exports face cleansers and skin toners to more than 15 countries across Asia and the Middle East. A medical-school graduate, Hortaleza, 45, is returning to his health roots: Splash has joined the booming market...
...sacred tree at Bodh Gaya is holy ground, but pilgrims also went to see Sarnath, where the Buddha preached his first sermon; Rajgir, where he came to meditate during the monsoons; Vaishali, where the beautiful courtesan Amrapali made him a gift of a mango grove; and Kushinagar, where, lying on a bed under two trees, he died. Buddhism withered in India in the Middle Ages; the great temples and monasteries were destroyed by invaders and the pilgrims stopped coming. In the 19th century, pilgrims from Burma and Sri Lanka rediscovered the trail, renovated and rebuilt ruined monasteries and temples...