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school of business and the Edwards Campus.
school of business and the Edwards Campus. Hall said that the foundation studied the University's plans and made a proposal to the foundation's board
"With enough emphasis we can become one of the top centers for life science," Hall said. "It's a field that's crying for attention these days."
"It was a very easy sell," Hall said.
He said the opportunity to donate came at the right time.
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"Our community, as any community, needs higher education," Hall said. "I don't know of a greater need. If you don't you lose all of your kids eventually, they go somewhere else."
The $27 million pledge toward a new research facility at KU Med will partially fund the $65 million proposal. The building is planned for a plot north of 39th Street and adjacent to the Med Center library in Kansas City, Mo. The University is responsible for allocating the remaining $38 million to fund the research facility.
"We will continue to raise funds privately and talk with the governor and legislature about the building." Hemenway said. "We'll also look at how we can reallocate funds within the next five years. The Hall gift is dependent on us to break ground in five years."
Maurice Joy, professor emeritus of the School of Business, said he was overwhelmed with the foundation's $500,000 pledge to fund a professorship in his name.
"It's a wonderful honor. The Hall people are the salt of the earth," he said. "It's especially great for the School of Business. One of the things that people don't realize is that it is a lot harder to get gifts in the humanities."
Joy said he was in a circle of about 35 people who knew about the pledge before the press conference and had to keep it a secret.
"It was like the D-Day invasion," he said of the event's secrecy.
The program included a buffet and a three-piece band. Students and custodial employees who passed through noted the festivity.
"It's fancier than a distinguished professor awards ceremony," said Ning Lei, Beijing, China graduate student. Lei said the University sent e-mails to alert students of the program.
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Navy halts bombings
VIEQUES, Puerto Rico Some sneak onto the bombing range by boat. Others don camouflage and use the cover of night to cut through fences.
The Associated Press
The idea is to halt bombing practice on Vieques island and being arrested is part of the deal, even for the nephew of President Kennedy and the wife of the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
"We are not violent criminals even though we have endured the act of shackles and have been treated as common criminals," an indignant Jacqueline Jackson told a federal judge Tuesday. She was jailed because she refused to pay $3,000 bail.
Activists working to end the U.S.Navy's six decades of bombing exercises on Vieues claim their peaceful guerrilla tactics succeeded in repeatedly pausing the
military maneuvers and contributed to President Bush's surprise announcement last week that the Navy must withdraw in two years.
"The people of Vieques have defeated the most powerful military apparatus in the history of humanity," activist leader Robert Rabin said Tuesday.
Another protest leader, Ismael Guadalupe, said the Navy wasn't bombing Tuesday because protesters were on its prized firing range—a claim the Navy quickly disputed.
"Our courage has turned Vieues into a world stage of peaceful protest," Guadalupe said.
The cause lately has drawn celebrities like Jackson and environmental lawyer Robert Kennedy Jr. to back charges that the bombing harms the environment and health of islanders.
The Navy denies that and describes as unscientific local
studies that claim Vieues residents suffer a higher incidence of cancer and other ills.
Actor Edward James Olmos and the Rev. Al Sharpton were among 180 people arrested during exercises in late April and early May. Sharpton has been on a hunger strike in a New York jail since May 29, and dozens of Puerto Rican protesters also are still in jail.
On Monday, as Navy jets dropped dummy bombs, Jackson walked through a quarter-mile of thick underbrush and woods to breach a Navy fence. She was arrested soon afterward.
Protesters say they want to reach the 900-acre beachside bombing range that is on 12,000 acres the Navy owns on the eastern end of the island. The Navy land is protected by a nine-mile arc of fencing that is regularly cut and then repaired.
Payments ease WWII slaves' pain
PRAGUE, Czech Republic A fund to compensate World War II-era slave laborers sent checks Tuesday to 10,000 people in the Czech Republic, the first payments to be made after years of haggling over the German-sponsored fund.
The Associated Press
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kavan described the payments by the $4.3 billion fund, which is supported 50-50 by the German government and industry, as "historic."
Victims are eligible to receive up to $6,500 each if they were in concentration camp programs intended to work prisoners to
death, or up to $2,175 if they were forced to work elsewhere for German companies.
Up to 1.5 million surviving slave and forced laborers — most in central and eastern Europe — are believed eligible for compensation.
German officials said last week that the Jewish Claims Conference and organizations in the Czech Republic and in Poland would be the first to receive payments.
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The Polish fund said it would make its first payments June 28. The Jewish Claims Conference didn't immediately name a date to start payments.
Of the 10,000 Czechs to be paid in the first wave, 2,434
served as slave laborers in Nazi concentration camps, and 7,566 are former forced laborers, Jan Sechter of the Czech-German fund said.
The Czech-German fund has registered some 84,000 applications for compensation, but hundreds more applications arrive every day, Sechter said.
Dagmar Buresova, head of the fund's board, thanked the victims for their patience, which she said "helped to create a political climate that allowed cooperation with the German side."
Czech slave laborers will receive a total of $186 million.
Inmate asks for forgiveness just before execution
Strapped to the same padded gurney on which Timothy McVeigh died, drug kingpin Juan Raul Garza received a chemical injection yesterday and became the second inmate in eight days to be executed by the U.S. government. While McVeigh died stoic and remorseless, Garza was fidgety as he awaited execution, and apologized for the murders he committed. "I just want to say that I'm sorry and I apologize for all the pain and grief that I have caused," the 44-year-old Garza said. "I ask your forgiveness, and God bless."
Justice Department seeks quick end to tobacco lawsuit
The Justice Department wants to settle its drawn-out civil lawsuit seeking damages from tobacco companies, government officials said Tuesday, in a move that appeared to take the industry by surprise. Two Bush administration sources said there has been concern about the government's case. These officials, discussing the matter only on grounds of anonymity, said the department would prefer to go for a settlement rather than risk losing.
United States prepares pilots for missions in no-fly zone
Lt. Col. T.J. O'Shaughnessy steers toward Iraq, where the American pilot patrols the skies with laser-guided bombs under the wings of his jet fighter. In his vest, he carries a pistol and a letter urging his safe return if he is shot down.
The no-fly zone over northern Iraq is becoming more dangerous for its enforcers, with Iraqi firing more often from beefed-up air defense facilities. The United States is responding by avoiding risky areas and making sure pilots are ready for a possible rescue mission.
Condom ads have not aroused network television interests
A decade after Fox ran the first condom advertisement on network television, a study has concluded that they aren't much more common on the air today. CBS and NBC have since joined Fox in allowing condom ads, yet the policies are so restrictive that prophylactic manufacturers don't bother making many, said a report released Tuesday by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
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