Word: frugalities
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Traditionally frugal in its approach, the University is now beginning to invest in you. Don't look for big changes immediately, but appreciate the shift in attitude. Administrators are saving less for a rainy day and giving more back to current students...
...close as the son of a President can get to calling himself a self-made man. The details may be true, but the message is bogus, because it ignores Bush's extraordinary family connections. He tried hard to be a regular guy but wasn't; he was famously frugal--"so tight he damn near squeaked," says a colleague--but didn't really need money. Rich friends of his father backed his business ventures...
...holy and frugal St. Francis believed that his order of monks ought to survive by begging. In a way, this pious tradition is preserved by a show that is now on view at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Treasury of Saint Francis of Assisi" comprises some 70 works of art--paintings, sculpture, textiles, manuscripts and metalwork--drawn in part from the 13th century tesoro, or museum, of the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi, Italy. Its main purpose is to draw attention to the disaster that struck the great pilgrimage center in September 1997, when...
...Instead, I'm a hack in the kitchen. Every meal I make starts with a package of boneless, skinless chicken breasts or a box of pasta (or both). One summer I got my roommate sick by cooking week-old chicken. I learned all I know about cooking from "The Frugal Gourmet" and "Great Chefs" on TV. (Those were the bad old days before Emeril and the Food Network...
What is particularly grating is the Senior Gift program itself. First there are the fancy brochures and letters on Senior Gift stationery we all received--way to be frugal. And what about the banquet the Development Office threw at the Charles Hotel for the 200-plus student volunteer solicitors, complete with open bar? Sounds like an organization in dire need of cash...