Word: generous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about time," said Michael M. Espiritu '01, a president of the Philippine Forum. "It's a small step in the right direction," he said, referring to colleges who he felt had been more generous in student grants...
...squawked. "Now they want me to pay even more?" I angrily vowed that I would not donate a single dollar to the College when the time came to give. Simply attending Harvard-Radcliffe was expensive enough. Besides, my measly little contribution would never be missed next to the more generous gifts of more prosperous students...
...expansive moral imagination has much to recommend it--including the endorsement of Jesus Christ. (Among the tactical advantages of Clinton's prayer breakfast was getting reporters to quote clergy quoting Scripture: "He that is without sin, let him first cast a stone.") Still, however humane a generous imagination may be, it poses a problem: Once started, where does it stop...
...weird how success affects people. Most of them turn into jerks. But Sosa, 29, got his paycheck and relaxed. He let us see the generous, fun and classy person he is. And he performed. With a league-leading 154 RBIs, a .309 average and the most home runs of any other major leaguer, except Mark McGwire (he had 63 to McGwire's 64 at week's end), has ever hit, Sosa has had one of the best offensive years of any other player, any other time. Most sportswriters think that he'll swipe the MVP award from McGwire and that...
...Mark McGwire's unexpected triumphs last week was exposing the intricacies of the gift tax. The guy who grabbed Big Mac's 62nd home-run ball won't be saddled with a tax bill for returning it to the slugger, but you might not want to be so generous with your friends. Once a gift giver surpasses a $625,000 lifetime limit (part of his estate-tax exemption), he'll have to pay taxes each year on any gifts he hands out that are worth more than...