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...Stuff starts to overwhelm you," says Dave Bruno, 37, an online entrepreneur who looked around his San Diego home one day last summer and realized how much his family's belongings were weighing him down. Thus began what he calls the 100 Thing Challenge. (Apparently, Bruno is so averse to excess he can't refer to 100 things in the plural.) In a country where clutter has given rise not only to professional organizers but also to professional organizers with their own reality series (TLC's Clean Sweep), Bruno's online musings about his slow and steady purge have developed...
...While the endowment, at $34.9 billion as of last summer, is the largest of any university in the world, it comprises more than 11,000 separate funds, with 83 percent of the total value restricted by donors’ wishes...
...mother’s example showed me that we must not become complacent with the world as it is, but rather we must envision the world as it should be. During the summer and fall of 2007, I took a leave of absence from college to work for the Obama campaign on the New Hampshire New Media team. As I blogged and edited videos of his daily events, I watched him draw people of all backgrounds. It was their stories that strengthened my faith in Obama’s ability to transform this nation. It was the wife...
...week that the Law School had raised over $450 million in its capital campaign, intended to finance an ambitious agenda that includes new buildings, an expanded faculty, and more generous financial aid programs. The five-year campaign, which had a target of $400 million and was launched in the summer of 2003, is the largest fundraising drive in the history of legal education. —Staff writer Kevin Zhou can be reached at kzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...McCain, as he will all summer and fall, argued that Obama is too inexperienced to bring about change - an argument road tested for him by Hillary Clinton. Meanwhile, Obama's critique - that McCain is too much like Bush in his policies and outlook to represent real change - will be repeated to voters over the next few months as well. And it also is the argument that Obama made against Clinton throughout the primary contest...