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...Hill & Barlow he worked in the company's brand new offices, at One International Place, a downtown Boston office building with sweeping views of Boston Harbor. Compensation is generous. Presently, a first-year associate like Goodheart makes $100,000 a year, and a discretionary bonus...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan and Joshua E. Gewolb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Discreet and Reserved: Corporation Secretary Goodheart Stays out of the Limelight | 12/12/2000 | See Source »

...premise of your editorial (Dec. 4), that humanities and social science departments are disadvantaged in funding because of alumni contributions towards science initiatives, is a curious one. Self-evidently Robert R. Barker '36 and Sidney R. Knafel '52 (as well as many other generous alumns) were approached to help create the Barker Center for the Humanities and the Knafel Center for Government and International Studies before Charles T. "Ted" Bauer '42 was moved to provide the key gift for the new Life Sciences building. Even if there were a problem with differential funding among the disciplines, it could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 12/12/2000 | See Source »

...story shows something very odd: nobody, with the exception of Potter, is unkind to anyone else--that is, up to when George is about to go off the deep end. Until then, everyone acts decently, helpfully, cheerfully, with George setting the standard by making a bank into a generous neighbor--not an easy thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sometimes It's a Wonderful Life | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...always match his philosophy and aspirations. When he fell in love with Yoko One - who was truly his soul mate and muse - he treated his first wife rather shabbily. The divorce settlement, while broadly in line with the conventions of the day, was not the act of a generous or gracious man. His laudable devotion to his second son, Sean, was partly in reaction to the guilt of his neglect of his first son, Julian. Though he was just starting to make amends with Julian, his murder took place before the reparations were that far along. Julian to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Lennon | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

...name veteran authors, all producing energetic work at age 60 or older: Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, Doris Lessing, Joyce Carol Oates, Edna O'Brien, Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, John Updike. The year also brought posthumous books by Joseph Heller and Mario Puzo. The millennium has so far been generous to readers. In with the new! In with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Books 2000 | 12/7/2000 | See Source »

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