Word: gift
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When we think of George Bernard Shaw, the first qualities that come to mind are a brilliant comic gift and an incisive, yet essentially kindly eye for social satire. It is sometimes difficult to remember that the playwright was also a serious thinker with serious, if now some what outmoded, philosophical ideas that he incorporated in many of his major plays. In this vein, a particularly successful fusion of comedy and philosophy is "Man and Superman," now enjoying a lively and stylish presentation at the American Repertory Theatre...
...movie, Good Will Hunting, tells the story of a street-smart South Boston kid with a gift for mathematics...
Though the Alternative Senior Gift Fund has drawn more attention to the issue, focusing on it has obscured student perception of how Faculty balance might be achieved. Among the 200 seniors who have given their time to the Senior Gift, it is known that the generosity of alumni/ae has allowed Harvard to amass the substantial resources it has and to constantly improve itself. The concerned efforts of these students directly affects Harvard's ability to realize the goals it has committed...
...Senior Gift is part of a process that has helped increase the support rate of alumni/ae from 30 to 50 percent over the past decade by highlighting the financial needs of the College, and the importance of widespread alumni participation in supporting the College as it seeks to maintain and improve itself. The participation rate among seniors in the class of 1996 was 70 percent, boding well for the future of the College...
...Pacino. Both Gravano and Maas (author previously of The Valachi Papers) claim Gravano will get no money from this de facto memoir. But why a man who recently left the federal witness-protection program would want to draw such attention to himself is a mystery. Maybe, given his gift for aphorism, he's thinking about going out on the corporate lecture circuit. "There's enough people to shoot in the head without looking for it all the time," he tells Maas--words any manager could live by. Amen, I guess...