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...already overemphasized Harvard's power to change government policy. But whereas ROTC is a government controlled entity, this (or any other) Colorado ski resort is a privately-owned business. It had nothing to do with the Colorado amendment passed in November, and to not accept it as the generous gift it is would not only have the same effect as pitting in the ocean, it would, in the long term, be imprudent...
...nervous that Harvard may not be so generous in how the students can use thefacilities as the alumni are in donating them,"Shefftz said...
Bartoli is right that no amount of coaching can create a voice like hers; one must be born with the raw material. But she was born with more than that. Her dark good looks project grandly across the footlights: a mane of lustrous hair, huge brown eyes, a generous mouth and milky shoulders that enhance a decolletage. She also has temperamental stability and a ready sense of humor. Says conductor James Levine, artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera: "She has extraordinary self-perception, without the narcissism and the rest of the baloney." She will need her level-headedness...
...understand where Germany and most contemporary Germans -- for example, the 350,000 who recently marched against racism in Berlin -- stand before we pronounce our easy and self-righteous j'accuse. We might remember, for example, that the German constitution has for decades included one of the most liberal and generous policies toward political asylum seekers anywhere in the world...
...hooks on which I hang my recollections of that powerful young man. As my wife and I were waiting last Wednesday evening for the movie "Malcolm X" to begin, we looked for words that might best describe the person we recalled: "handsome, attractive, forceful, caring, committed, generous, energetic, absolutely no sham or pretense, nothing superficial, open human, totally sincere," and nouns like "integrity," and "conviction." Although we had disagreed with his ideas and much of what he said, both of us had admired him as a human being and liked him enormously...