Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refutes the innuendo: "Some time ago a foreign company offered me $1 million, to be deposited in a Swiss bank the minute the company chairman walked through the door of a certain important finance minister. It would have required one phone call -- the minister was a close personal friend. I turned it down." He also scoffs at critics who say the clients are buying the name. "Nobody continues paying you for your name. You either do something they can justify to their boards, or they drop you." So far only two, in financial trouble, have done...
...Burke's friend Taaka Awori also delivered a speech of her memories of the upstate New York native. Michelle Webb, another one of Burke's friends, read the poem "Slow me down, Lord!" by Gail Bishop...
Some Harvard undergraduates wondered whether they should even send a Hallmark greeting today to that special girlfriend, boyfriend, or simply "friend." Should you go for mailed personals or an even more personal approach? Maybe leave a dozen roses or a huge Hershey's kiss anonymously outside her door in commemoration of St. Valentine, a Roman priest martyred as a Christian...
Things were not so academic for Ian J. Hardington '86 and Shannon B. McNulty '86. They met through a mutual friend. "I remember I turned up at his room for a drink, and she was there," says Hardington, who proposed to his future wife last week. "We all went out for drinks. [That was the beginning], although I had my eye on her for a while...
...Another friend: After my freshman year in high school, I went on a summer trip with my parents. I came back and in July saw a senior, male friend of mine. He teased me. "You've gained weight. Ten pounds or so, right?" I stopped eating for the next two days. I was so terrified of being...