Politics Harvard is said to be open to spending up to $500 million to resolve Trump dispute The Trump administration publicly depicted last week’s settlement with Columbia as a template for bargaining with Harvard and other universities it has targeted. The Eliot House dormitory on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sophie Park/Bloomberg Harvard University has signaled a willingness to meet the Trump administration’s demand to spend as much as $500 million to end its dispute with the White House as talks between the two sides intensify, four people familiar with the negotiations said. According to one of the...