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...Hanson (Paul Rudd) learns from Nina (Jennifer Aniston), a total stranger, that he's about to be dumped by his college professor boyfriend (a disastrously miscast Tim Daly). Fortunately, Nina is sympathetic and almost unrealistically trusting, offering him the spare room in her Brooklyn apartment. George accepts Nina's generous invitation--and their relationship predictably begins...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Highlighting Stereotypes is Not Funny | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

...upon withdrawal. The old-style IRA, which allows you to put away before-tax money and pay tax upon withdrawal, remains useful. But restrictions cut most people out. Still, there's $1.3 trillion sitting in the things, thanks to years of 401(k) rollovers and initially generous IRA terms. Much of that should and will convert to new Roth accounts, and that is plainly what's behind the current Roth marketing blitz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Great Name in IRAs | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...personal relations with colleagues, family and friends, Lenin was relatively open and generous. Unlike many tyrants, he did not crave a tyrant's riches. Even when we strip Lenin of the cult that was created all around him after his death, when we strip away the myths of his "superhuman kindness," he remains a peculiarly modest figure who wore a shabby waistcoat, worked 16-hour days and read extensively. (By contrast, Stalin did not know that the Netherlands and Holland were the same country, and no one in the Kremlin inner circle was brave enough to set him straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...said Harvard's attractiveness as an academiccommunity should balance its refusal to enterbidding wars in most cases. This is an argumentsimilar to that made by Harvard's financial aidofficers in cases where less prestigious schoolsmake students far more generous aid offers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Economics Welcomes One, Loses Another | 4/10/1998 | See Source »

Harvard boasts one of the finest teams in the nation. And now, thanks to the generous donation of Robert M. Beren, (`47, M.B.A. `50) they will also boast one of the best facilities as well...

Author: By Jodie L. Pearl, | Title: HIGHLIGHTS | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

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