Word: executor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when her father died in 1988, leaving her a comfortable inheritance and naming her the sole executor of his will, Schupf began to evolve into a different woman. She returned to college and earned a B.A. in women's studies. And in 1992 she started a family foundation with a multimillion-dollar endowment. She wanted the foundation to encourage women in science but was told by research institutions that the more important work was being done by men. Schupf persisted, contributing $1.5 million for a female science professor's post at Skidmore College in New York State and funding...
...executor of Rey's estate, said Rey instructed her to distribute $2.9 million that the two shared in a joint account to six additional charities. Proposed beneficiaries include the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston, medical research and, ironically, Helping Hands, a program designed to train monkeys for help in the homes of invalids...
...Jackie legacy," says Richard Lyttelton, president of EMI Classics. "They were looking for sensationalism and ignoring the fact that she was the greatest soloist produced by Britain in the 20th century." Lyttelton also concedes that his company didn't want to cross Barenboim, Du Pre's artistic executor and an important artist who wields influence in the music community. "We would not want [our current artists] suspicious that we would do anything to make a quick buck," he says...
Kowal, meanwhile, is the Crimson's back-up point guard for co-captain Megan Basil. Kowal provides a change of pace from Basil's style--while the latter is more of a spot-up shooter and half-court offense executor, Kowal's game is collapsing defenses by penetrating and then dishing to an open teammate. She is an excellent ball handler with superb quickness, and she is seldom unnerved...
...paid tribute to his sister's glorious, pained life in the most watched eulogy in history, he inveighed against a rapacious press, denounced, however subtly, the monarchy's benighted stoicism and emerged suddenly as a controversial hero in the drama of Princess Diana's death--a powerful executor of her spiritual will...