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Frank Lloyd Wright was an American original. Prolific, visionary, unorthodox and ingenious, he built for a romantic America, a country with space and grace to spare. While the turbines of Modernism were fitting and turning homes, buildings and cities into parts of a huge functional machine, Wright held on to...
All semester, everyone involved with financialaid changes has stressed that Harvard was beingcircumspect instead of stubborn--scared that aknee-jerk policy change would be impractical ortoo expensive for the long term.
Though he has no organization and isn't yet raising money, Bradley is laying the groundwork for a run. Last year he hired a chief of staff, veteran Democratic operative Ed Turlington, who operates out of Bradley's small office in Palo Alto, Calif., near the campus of Stanford University...
Andy K. Tiedemann, director of communications in Harvard's development office, says the University usually receives large gifts after extended consultation between the donor and Harvard officials--consultation that usually prevents the donor from sticking to an impractical idea.
While officials could provide no recent examples of Harvard turning down an impractical gift, Yale University recently refused a gift of $20 million to endow a program in Western Civilization.