Word: gift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gift is symbolic because she tried to make student life more pleasant [with Loker Commons] and now she is focusing onthe quality of intellectual life," Verba said."Lots of people give money to the University; shetried to find out where money is needed for theover-all mission of the University...
...like to send [him], to let him hear what his brother's musical capabilities are," Rich told the Montreal Gazette. Coincidentally, Clapton, who has had his own struggles with addiction, recently announced plans to open a rehab clinic in Antigua. Could it be time for a little Easter gift? The singer's representatives said they had no comment on his new family, but offered to fax through Clapton's tour dates...
...Crace's Quarantine (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 243 pages; $23) novelizes the Temptations of Christ, adding a plot bubbling with sin and a supporting cast of odd pilgrims. Crace, a British journalist turned novelist (The Gift of Stones, Continent), is not the first writer to take fictional liberties with Scripture. He won't be the last. But his new effort proves to be one of the more successful reimaginings. Readers and critics in Britain thought so: when Quarantine was published there last year, it was short-listed for the Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award...
Easily reached by regular ferry service, Ile St.-Honorat has sweet-smelling eucalyptus groves, sprinkled with lavender, thyme and rosemary, and generally rocky beaches. There are no cars, just nicely shaded paths. A quaint and spacious gift shop sells CDs of the monks' exquisite chanting as well as jars of their homemade honey and bottles of their wine...
...China, the release of a dissident such as Wang Dan is a gift to the West, in exchange for political favors to Beijing. And the political cost of such a gift may be pretty cheap, says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Once a dissident leaves China, they lose all influence back home," says Dowell. "The offer of release into exile sparks a huge emotional crisis for many dissidents, who feel that choosing to leave is like choosing to give up. Some even opt instead to stay in prison...