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...estate sale, and I suspect she had a few thoughts on it before she died. It was brilliant to set the prices so low on everything. That way, everybody felt he or she could afford something. No one could accuse the Kennedy kids of greed, as it seemed rather generous of them to offer Dad's humidor for only a couple of thousand dollars. Then when it went for $574,500, it was like an enormous compliment to the Kennedy family: "We like you! We really like you!" And the kids could shyly say, "Thanks, we're so surprised...
...shown at the height of his powers in 'The Flaming Corsage,' when his play of the same name scandalizes proper Albanians in 1912. "At just over 200 pages, 'The Flaming Corsage' contains more dramatic events, bright dialogue and strong characters than most novels twice its length," says Sheppard. "The generous spirit is best reflected by Daugherty's dying father, who jauntily toasts his own send-off with a growler of ale and an intimation of paradise that, he says, resembles the inside of a fireman's boot. "That1s not what heaven looks like," says his priest. "Then," replies the elder...
...paying for it, we might as well prescribe something," Crumley says. "This will make people think before acting." Some doctors warn that this is a step toward managed care that would eventually lead to reduced services for patients. Crumley disputes that contention. "The system won't be as generous, but it can't be," Crumley says. "It will however be generous by American standards. The quality of care won't be affected. What will change is that waste by doctors will be tightened." Yet some people, who are used to the current system of unlimited health care, are wary...
...give him, free of charge. His plan was to pick up the burgers in Zagreb, fly them to Tuzla and pass them out to the U.S. troops he would be visiting. That gesture was pure Ron Brown: part theater, part business, with an eye on self-interest and a generous touch...
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz was first off the mark with Reasonable Doubts, a discussion of the legal issues of the case with very little real drama. That missing ingredient, however, has been whipped up in generous gobs in both prosecutor Christopher Darden's In Contempt (ReganBooks; $26), written with Jess Walter, and this week's offering, defense attorney Robert Shapiro's The Search for Justice (Warner Books; $24.95), written with Larkin Warren. There are no bombshells here, but both lawyers take the reader on a breathless you-are-there ride, evoking once again all the emotions of that fevered...