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...died a little sooner or a little later, might have been remembered as a hero. He founded a university in Angola, gave loans to women-owned businesses in Ecuador and ran a company that supplies heat to 147 homeless shelters in Boston. He spent much of his life doing generous things, but just enough doing reckless things to join the long index of scandals and self-destruction in untold Kennedy histories to come...
...interests, and in a year that had seen far too many fund-raising stories about Jakarta's Mochtar Riady and the Lippo Group, the Administration could hardly take the lead for anything Indonesian. Despite prosperity at home, the nation--and Congress in particular--was in no mood to be generous. In November, Congress killed $3.5 billion in new borrowing authority for the IMF as part of an unrelated dispute over foreign family-planning funds...
...departure from the business--its Universal Card portfolio is being sold to Citibank for $3.5 million--is the latest buyout, as the industry consolidates in an attempt to get back on the gravy train it once rode. With fewer big competitors, the remaining card issuers are getting less generous. AT&T's initial no-fee offer inspired a wink of inducements from other issuers, each upping the ante with low initial rates and rebates. And consumers snapped them up, stuffing an average of seven cards in their wallets...
...year to take stock of things. "It was pretty heavy, pretty wild," recalls Louis-Dreyfus. "There were no tears shed, but there was a lot of heart thumping." Seinfeld was relieved to find the cast agreed with him: "They just started making good money last year, but they were generous enough to respect the timing of the curve--not that they could have talked me out of it, I don't think...
...retired from his positions at the University in 1965 and received an honorary degree in 1966 which cited him as a "Scholar-scribe, devoted to precision, precedent and propriety; longtime generous and helpful officer of this university," according to The Boston Globe...