Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $15,561
19%  
Woo hoo!! And now only $639 from reaching 20%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

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  • When David meets Goliath (New London landgrab!!!)

    06/24/2005 3:35:28 PM PDT · by andie74 · 21 replies · 827+ views
    Newsday.com ^ | May 8, 2005 | John Riley
    NEW LONDON, Conn. -- When it all started in 1997, Claire Gaudiani was the president of Connecticut College, a specialist in French literature and philanthropy who had become a flamboyant and fabulously successful fund-raiser at the pricey school on a hill overlooking this economically depressed old whaling port. She saw it as her social obligation to spearhead an ambitious redevelopment plan - a Pfizer pharmaceutical headquarters anchoring a waterfront hotel, upscale new housing, and retail and office space - that would revitalize the city's tax base and give hope to those less fortunate. "It was a very idealistic vision," said...