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Clay was so generous to his writers. If you did good work for him, he couldn't do enough for you. He gave me so much space, and he let me try anything. He was an incredible leader in that somehow he would suffuse everybody--the writers, the illustrators, the designers, the photographers--with the idea that this is the most important thing you'll ever do and this is the time to do it. That's what animated people. It's very rare in this world...
...really missed her best friend, who had to leave their hometown of Chicago to take a job in the cruise industry. So, for Christmas, he shipped Stiga to the Caribbean to meet up with her pal for a few days of unadulterated girl time. "It remains the single most generous and thoughtful gift I've ever received, from anyone at any time," says Stiga. "Don't tell my husband...
Somalia is a land that has descended so deeply into misery that "failed state" is now too generous a description for the country. Yet it was hard not to marvel at local politicians, appointed by outside forces, wielding almost no power at all but still able to find ways to make things worse. Case in point: on Sunday, President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed announced that he had fired the Prime Minister, and 24 hours later, parliament rebuffed him. The standoff has further hardened the political paralysis that has denied any prospect of peace to the country's long-suffering people...
...returned to the theme in his more recent novel—it was released on Dec. 27, 2007, to avoid end-of-the-year-list mania on the blogs—“Diary of a Bad Year.” More humane and generous than “Disgrace,” less tightly controlled, the book nonetheless argues that no one reads books anymore...
...Gregory Mankiw in “Sugar Daddy; or, the Over-Generous Benefactor” 2. Philip J. Fisher in “Seduction of a Proper Gentleman” 3. Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 in “Men! Men! Men!” 4. Bret Johnston in “A Literary Dandy” 5. Rev. Peter J. Gomes in “Codpiece in a Convent!” 6. Alison Simmons in “Platonic Forms ... of Passion” 7. Steven Pinker in “Mind Fuck?...