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Once again, just as it has prevented rain from falling on Commencement Day for the last 361 years, Harvard has defied gravity. When Princeton, Yale, Stanford, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania announced their decisions to offer more generous financial aid packages earlier this year, any Harvard-trained economist might have expected that a price war would drive down the costs of a Harvard education...
Dahmer didn't let hatred infect his generous spirit. When two college kids ran out of money and gas on the highway near his store, Ellie says, he gave them fuel from his pump and lent them $20. The boys, like many people he helped, were white...
Holbrooke is generous in praising his colleagues. In particular, his appreciation of Secretary of State Warren Christopher's contribution should go a long way toward countering the scathing criticisms of Christopher's stewardship that were fashionable at the time. Christopher gave Holbrooke an "unprecedented degree of flexibility" and was always prepared to wade in himself if needed. He emerges as one of the heroes of this strange epic...
...Gore campaign, they lapse into Pidgin English, reminiscent of the language that G.I.s in Korea employed to palaver with shoeshine boys and barmaids? Maybe committee investigators were told to keep their eyes out for a tape on which Bruce Lindsey says to Maria Hsia, a fund raiser prosecutors considered generous to a fault, "Listen, missy, you tell Charlie Trie boss needs money chop-chop...
Knowles said much of the support for increased financial aid came from Faculty members who were concerned GSAS was losing students to institutions which could offer more generous...