Listen to Peter Van Etten, the wiry chief executive of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International.

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By dipping into assets as well, Van Etten was able to pump up research funding by 59%.

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The opening seconds of "Much More Than That, " by Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten, are almost uncomfortable in their intimacy.

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And it acted to soup up fundraising and efficiency by hiring, in early 2000, Van Etten, a longtime nonprofit health-care-system executive with a Harvard M.

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" Van Etten on funding research projects: "We make investments.

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Van Etten fired executives, imposed tight controls and cut the number of chapters from 110 to 79 by, for example, merging six units in his native New England into one.

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"I spend more time reading the news, " said Matt Van Etten, 26, a graduate student at the University of Washington when asked about the impact of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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On Van Etten's watch contributions have risen 62%.

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Sharon Van Etten found the sense of Teutonic melodrama in "Falconer, " and Mr. Cale and his band, augmented for some songs by a string quartet, showed repeatedly how he and Nico anticipated the marriage of rock and electronic instrumentation.

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