July 8, 2005
Soros Pledges Millions to Central European U.
George Soros, the international financier and philanthropist, has pledged $206-million to the endowment of Central European University, a Budapest-based graduate institution founded shortly after the collapse of Eastern Europe's Communist regimes.
The university generally teaches in English and takes a critical, Western-style approach to the social sciences and humanities in a region where such an approach was once banned. The university said the gift, to be provided at the start of
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