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...absolutely essential to the outcome,” Klarman said. “If it weren’t for her, I’m pretty confident this actually wouldn’t have happened. [...]She was persevering, generous, warm, and caring...
...School to intense lobbying from Dean Elena Kagan, who has made increasing the size of the faculty one of her priorities. "She was absolutely essential to the outcome," Klarman said. "If it weren't for her, I'm pretty confident this actually wouldn't have happened. [...]She was persevering, generous, warm and caring." While the Law School made appointments in the past decade that strengthened the faculty in corporate and business law, it has recently added more scholars in the fields of constitutional and administrative law, according to Professor Richard H. Fallon, a constitutional scholar. "As I look...
...number one choice was Scarlett Johansson. Our number two was Catherine Zeta Jones. Those guys were busy with something else once they found out it wasn't the Hasty Pudding, just the Lampoon," Davenport said. "We went down the list, we got to Paris, and it was very generous of her to come...
...latest Forbes list of the world's billionaires, 17 of Britain's 41 billionaires are foreigners. They're drawn to the country in part by a tax break that exempts anyone born outside Britain from paying a 40% income tax on their overseas earnings. Few countries are as generous toward their foreign rich, and figures from the Treasury show that the number of people claiming tax-exempt status in the 2005-06 tax year was 114,000, almost double what it was 10 years...
...succeeded in becoming suchefficient reproductive machines--equipped with both a generous appetite for mates and a cool ability to screen them for genetic qualities--why muddy things up with romance? For one thing, we may not be able to help it. Just being attracted to someone doesn't mean that that person is attracted back, and few things drive us crazier than wanting something we may not get. Cultural customs that warn against sex on the first date may have emerged for such practical reasons as avoiding pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases, but they're also there for tactical...