Word: donor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doubt as to the existence of a correlation between academic exemptions and on-field performance seems to be removed with a glance at the Columbia football team; formerly the doormat of the league, it has recently regained respectability. According to one University donor and athletic booster, "It's no secret they decided Columbia needed to be more competitive, so they let them relax their standards a little bit more...
...MICKEY MANTLE, 63, Baseball Hall of Famer, this time for anemia caused by chemotherapy; in Dallas. Barely two months after undergoing a liver transplant, Mantle revealed he had begun treatment for cancer that had spread from his diseased liver to his lung (had the cancer been detected earlier, the donor liver would have gone to someone else...
...monetary compensation includes placing a potential donor higher on a list of organ recipients should he or she ever need a transplant, or providing services such as grief counseling to the families of organ donors. Although it seems a much better plan than monetary compensation, it still bears some flaws...
...university does have a record of the scholarship, its donor unknown, yet Koernke elected to spend his freshman year at the less prestigious, less expensive Eastern Michigan University. While there he joined the ROTC program, cutting a vivid and peculiar figure. "I don't often remember students who were in only briefly," says Lieut. Colonel Michael Chirio (ret.), who ran the program. "But I remember him. He was not a shrinking violet." Koernke, says Chirio, loved to lecture others "about a lot of things," especially weaponry. "He evidently knew a great deal about arms, and he just bored the hell...
While Rindge may have donated the library with the greatest love and Christian charity, the city of Cambridge cannot endorse his faith simply because of his money. To do so would suggest that our public buildings, and our private liberties, are up for sale. Any donor can violate the Establishment Clause, or perhaps other civil rights, as the price for their munificence. The plaques should be removed from a public library and placed where they belong--in a Church or in a museum...