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...generous all of his life--what he did for Harvard was the culmination of this generosity," she added of the former museum curator. He left the prize so unrestricted, she said, because he himself was "so versatile--a broad thinking person who was interested in everything...
...more generous portion of that precious commodity might also have spruced up The Love You Make, subtitled "An Insider's Story of the Beatles." Co-Author Peter Brown went to work for Brian Epstein when he was running the record department at one of the family music stores in Liverpool. Managing a scraggly rock quartet was a sideline. Epstein exalted the Beatles, of course, and was consumed by them. He was smitten with them all, and almost crazily in love with John Lennon. Brown attended at the beginning of all this and stayed past the end, when the Beatles...
Last week this seemingly generous gesture of good will came back to haunt Dow. According to a report in the New York Times, memorandums from participants in that almost forgotten session indicate that Dow's objective may not have been corporate benevolence. Rather, the documents show, the meeting appears to have been part of an effort to keep discoveries about dioxin's perils from exploding into a public scandal, which could have brought a new outcry for governmental regulation of the chemical industry. Wrote a participant from Hercules Powder: "They [Dow] are particularly fearful of a congressional investigation...
...They have offered food hundreds of times to the greats of America and the world," Vellucci said Wednesday. "I would hope they'd be as generous with the hungry...
...With a generous tailwind in the air, unseasonably cool weather, and thousands of cheering spectators, all of Boston seemed on the march for the fans, it was a day of fun and excitement. For the runners--both world-class and hacker alike--it was a day of accomplishment...