Is it my imagination or have I seen this story two or three times in the past couple of months -- i mean the same story about a couple giving $150 million to Stanford to create an antipoverty program. It's nice that they did this, and all of that, but why announce it so many times?

The donation was announced by Stanford at the beginning of November. It looks like this is the first time that the Almanac has run the story.

It does seem appropriate to me that it be carried in the local newspaper because after all the the donor is a local resident who is giving the second largest donation that Stanford has ever received.

I guess if I read it elsewhere a couple of times it still would break down to $50M per reading, which I can live with but I guess not everybody is the same. I think if it really bugged me to hear about it again, I'd just skip over the article.