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...house, move in with children and stay at least five years. The ads got national attention. "People started showing up overnight," says Janet Tennyson, 58. She and her husband run the only gas station in town. In a matter of weeks, Kissner found six takers and put them on generous 5-acre or 9-acre tracts. The new families brought in enough kids to keep the school open. But only for a while. Unable to keep jobs, the families left town a few years later; some had never built a house. The school closed in 1987. Kissner has since died...
...American people, as they showed over the tsunami, are generous and warmhearted. If they thought the money would make the difference, they would [come through]. The American initiative on AIDS has put 150,000 people on antiretroviral drugs. If we were able to have an African peacekeeping force able to go into situations like Sudan--where America is the biggest contributor of humanitarian help--you would prevent a lot of problems...
...three days after the death of a truly beloved Eliot student, Paul F. Gilligan III ’05. His passing has come as the most tremendous shock, and it is almost impossible to comprehend that he is no longer with us, that his smile and quiet voice, his generous spirit, and his outstanding athleticism, will no longer grace the Dining Hall at Eliot or the dock at the Weld Boat House...
...eulogists struck a different note. With a sentimental tip of the hat to the fallen leader, many Northern journalists, preachers and politicians actually tried to use Lincoln's death to stoke the fires of vengeance. "If the rebels can do a deed like this to the kind, good, generous, tender-hearted ruler, whose every thought was purity," exclaimed Benjamin Butler, a general in the war, to a crowd in New York City, "whose every desire a yearning for forgiveness and peace, what shall be done to them in high places who guided the assassin's knife?" The crowd began...
...effect much of the time, reporters bore no such burdens. The Icelanders essentially put on a huge trade show for their captive audience of some 2,000 journalists. The basketball court in the gymnasium of a local high school was transformed into the "Iceland Center," complete with a generous spread of local delicacies (herring, smoked lamb and skyr, which is said to taste like honey-flavored yogurt). Outside the press center, half a dozen honey-colored Icelandic ponies pranced in a light rain while their blue-blazered riders carried U.S., Soviet and Icelandic flags on long poles. The government also...