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    One Cancer Hospital Will Stop Paying the Trump Organization

    Harvard’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has said it will not host its annual gala at the president’s Mar-a-Lago property. Though it won’t say why.
    by James Hamblin May 23, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Alex Brandon / AP

    “Ladies and gentlemen … we did not plan this.”

    A voice boomed out of ballroom speakers as the crowd broke into applause and unleashed its phones to capture the moment. President Donald Trump had just burst into a gala at his Mar-a-Lago property, in a pendulous red tie, an American flag on his lapel. He was waving to the crowd in all directions. This was in February. Trump proceeded to greet the organizers who had rented the Palm Beach ballroom on behalf of a renowned Boston hospital, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

    For a ticket price of that Foster has won 16 Grammys.) And it’s really not about that. Primarily, ticket-buyers receive the satisfaction that proceeds fund medical research that could play a part in treating cancer—in the form of lucrative products for the pharmaceutical and medical-device industries.

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