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WHEN IT COMES TO NASTY POLITICS and financial mismanagement, the academy has few rivals. Last week the king of all fund-raising foul-ups was unveiled when Yale University admitted that it was returning, at the donor's request, a $20 million gift from Texas oil billionaire Lee M. Bass. Scrambling to put a spin on the fiasco, Yale claimed that giving back the money, intended to endow a new program in Western Civilization, was an act of courage in the face of unreasonable demands. Some critics of the administration claimed a Pyrrhic victory for multiculturalism. At heart, though...
...terms of the agreement at all." As the Journal described it, the forces of political correctness had sandbagged the hiring process for the new program. Infuriated and distrustful of Levin, Bass then demanded that he be allowed to oversee appointments to the chairs he'd endowed, a request frequently made by donors but always denied by the university. "Yale would not be Yale if it had ever yielded to any such request," said Judge Jose Cabranes, a trustee of the school...
...Winnie Mandela's Soweto homethree weeks ago. Police were investigating whether the deputy Cabinet minister and estranged wife of President Nelson Mandela took bribes to secure government contracts for a firm that she wanted to take over. The judge ruled that a local magistrate improperly acted on a police request for the warrants. He ordered police to return documents seized in the raid. But they still have papers seized from the firm. "Police said this makes no difference to the probe that's going on," says TIME South Africa reporter Peter Hawthorne. "She's not out of the woods...
...long career that began in earnest when Bernays set up shop in 1919. Now regarded as the virtual inventor of modern public relations, he promoted Enrico Caruso, Ivory soap, Henry Ford, World War I, hairnets, various projects for every President from Coolidge to Eisenhower, the color green (at the request of Lucky Strike cigarettes, concerned that women were resisting the green packaging because it clashed with their clothes) and Time Inc. Along the way, Bernays developed many now commonplace opinion-shaping strategies, including celebrity endorsements and the use of surveys and polling data, both for research and as selling points...
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