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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come to the hardly surprising realization that There is no generic reader, out there; in Our Century, Gordimer is a long distance from shocking us with the information that The mushroom cloud still hangs over us, and the unbearably trite corollary question: will it be there as a bequest to the new century...

Author: By Joshua Perry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nobel Winner Rests on Laurels | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...come to the hardly surprising realization that There is no generic reader, out there; in Our Century, Gordimer is a long distance from shocking us with the information that The mushroom cloud still hangs over us, and the unbearably trite corollary question: will it be there as a bequest to the new century...

Author: By Joshua Perry, | Title: Nobel Winner Rests on Laurels | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...alumna of a Radcliffe graduate program, Collins had supported Radcliffe for decades. But upon hearing the news of the merger, Collins decided to leave the new Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study with a special bequest: $1.5 million...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Announces Gifts Since Agreement | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

Your other bequest may be more useful still--to journalists and everyone else. No life ends on a period, no matter how long it is lived. But your abbreviated life makes one especially aware of how much there is to the unknowable and untidy. In their private hours, your parents will imagine you as a wife, a mother, an actress in the movies or at the village playhouse. For myself, I see you married--as my own daughter was married a year ago--in a church ceremony the antipode of the one you were the center of last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Note for Rachel Scott | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) cleared another major hurdle in its effort to claim a $1.3 million bequest from the estate of Margret E. Rey Wednesday evening when its board of trustees unanimously agreed to amend Rey's will...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, | Title: PBHA Trustees Agree to Amend Will, One Step Closer to $1.3M Windfall | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

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