The hottest stock on the academic market these days is Stanford University, which says it wants to be "the Harvard of the West." Last year the already rich school (endowment: $159 million) got a 1-for-3 matching grant of $25 million from the Ford Foundation. Last spring it set out to raise that potential $100 million under an acronymous campaign called PACE (Plan of Action for a Challenging Era). Last week it totted up the first four months' take: $20.5 million.
Along with dollars came scholars: Stanford is raiding blue-chip faculties all over the East....
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