Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cuomo fired up the packed audience with a personal anecdote to begin what he promised would not be a speech. He recounted that in his 12 years as governor of New York, his own mother never acknowledged his success "because it wouldn't show the other children respect...
...whose fundraising campaign last year yielded more than $1 billion. Last year Harvard paid a single Harvard employee (Jonathan Jacobson, the fund manager of the Harvard Management Company) $10 million. If Harvard really believes that the notion of "total compensation" will lift all boats, why don't we begin by paying Mr. Jacobson in benefits and time off rather than in cash...
...even if you missed out on this year's April 9 fertilization date, never you fear: the whole 2000 thing is just a farce anyway. Everyone knows that the third millennium doesn't really begin until Jan. 1, 2001. So don't be disheartened--there's still fortune and fame for you out there after all. JORDANA R. LEWIS
...Habsburg and Russian mandates that Jews adopt national surnames, the early Jewish tradition of passing on the mother's maiden name in a religious marriage rather than the father's in a civil one, and the tendency among early Jewish immigrants to Americanize their long, ethnic-sounding names. Begin your search at www.jewishgen.org or www.yad-vashem.org...
CANADA --Since privacy legislation mandates that census data cannot be released for 92 years, the latest census information available is from 1901. Other records can be costly and difficult to locate, but begin the search for Canadian birth, death, marriage and other records at www.archives.ca...