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...Cabots were also generous financial supporters of Harvard. The Cabots endowed a dozen Harvard chairs and gave millions of dollars in gifts and trusts to the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Overseer, HAA Head Cabot Dies at 98 | 6/24/1995 | See Source »

...unflappable and he was always consistently generous, consistently decent with other people," says Doermann, who is now the president of the Busch foundation in Minneapolis...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Jewett Leaves Deanship in Wake of Randomization Decision | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...critical, not bitter. I'llalways appreciate the friends I made here,especially two: my roommate of four years and awonderful person I consider my best friend. And asa reporter and editor at The Crimson, I found agroup of young writers who love newspapers and aregenerous--maybe too generous--with their time...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Parents' Optimism Is Today's Apathy | 6/7/1995 | See Source »

...grown up with these people, and they'll always be friends. But it absolutely does not affect your editorial judgment or their placement of ads." And how meaningful is one little Chanel outfit presented gratuit to someone who doesn't pay for her clothes anyway? "I have a very generous clothing allowance," says Vogue's editor in chief Anna Wintour. "But if a designer gives me something, I absolutely have no problem with that. It's something I use my judgment about. It's not going to influence what you put in your pages. It's a fuss about nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRESS: SKIRTING THE ISSUES | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...manufactured for the times. The whole "prima notte" issue, for example, clearly alludes to the sexual-military tactics used in Bosnia. Tentative stereotyping still mars the actors' roles including the French princess, trained to rule but unable to deny her soft female heart. Enjoying this movie calls for a generous does of cluelessness to ignore the tired machinery so obviously creaking behind the scenes...

Author: By Cicely V. Wedgeworth, | Title: Gibson's Kilts Come up Short | 5/26/1995 | See Source »

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