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Saturday, June 16, 2001
http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/globe_story.html?uri=/dailyglobe2/164/nation/Harvard_Stanford_vie_for_150m-.shtml Harvard, Stanford vie for $150m A software titan seeks an institute By David Abel, Globe Staff Software mogul Larry Ellison is offering Harvard a chance at the biggest donation in its history - but the university may have to fight for it. The billionaire CEO of Oracle Corp. is putting up $150 million to create an institute to study the effects of technology on politics and economics. But instead of cultivating a relationship with a particular school, Ellison has made the offer to both Harvard and Stanford universities - playing the academic titans off each other while he waits for them to make their best offers.....
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