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Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles stood behind students and faculty at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) last week, expressing his support for a proposal to create more generous financial aid packages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Supports GSAS Aid Boost | 5/13/1998 | See Source »

...know; for example, "[Ruth] had no idea that she was not through with him." And the author sometimes overexplains: "Oh, well, Eddie thought as he got off the bus--maybe it was almost Ninety-second Street. (It was Eighty-first.)" But these are the lapses of a generous narrator intent on giving his readers not just incidents but a way of making sense of them. "The grief over lost children never dies," Irving writes near the end. His novel shows how and why that statement is true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Saga of Loss And Recovery | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

Sources say Fagan's next wife was a widow who received a large settlement after her husband was hit by a car. Chris Larmoyeux, a Palm Beach lawyer, said Fagan was a devoted father, a well-liked neighbor, a director of the Palm Beach Opera company and a generous man with his money. "When you look at how he's raised his daughters and how they turned out, he's done an extraordinary job," Larmoyeux says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: End Of An 18-Year Illusion | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...answered with some variation of long-suffering, not-so-intelligent, and demure, you will be happy to know that there is a generous curve...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: A Cowboy's Kind of Girl | 4/28/1998 | See Source »

...Lloyd is everything we'd expect him to be: a predictably amoral executive who clings to the upper wrung of the management ladder like a sloth to a tree branch, fighting to protect his slice of generous options and to overindulge in brown liquids, Cuban smokes, aged red meat and not-so-aged women other than his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Company Man | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

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