Word: gift
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...academic maelstrom has formed around the new Zelaznik professorship for Holocaust and Cognate studies, which was created by a 1995 gift to Harvard by Kenneth Lipper, former deputy mayor of New York City...
Officers fanned out over the area and a detective spotted the men and the girls walking along the beach front. The men were arrested after they entered a gift shop at about 9:30 a.m., Cheek said...
Every few weeks or so, one of the nuns in the study dies, and her gift to science--a beautifully sculpted, convoluted mass of tissue that once embodied a devout mind--arrives at the University of Kentucky, where it is processed, assigned a number and then locked away like a rare book. Each brain is photographed, weighed and sliced into sections. From these sections researchers remove the barest slivers of tissue, which they examine under high-power microscopes. What they are looking for is the freckling of brownish plaques and blackish tangles that are the telltale marks of Alzheimer...
Hitler, one might say, had presented the Allies with an immense cultural gift, not that everyone appreciated it. And it wasn't just painters and sculptors. After the Bauhaus, the leading experimental visual-arts school in Germany, was suppressed, some of its leading lights--Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy--moved to America, where their example and teaching changed its architecture, making New York City and Chicago the epicenters of the postwar International Style. And the academic study of art history in America, which had been fairly larval before the 1930s, was transformed...
Albright likes to wear the eagle and top hat on her trips abroad as symbols of American power and glory. She most recently wore both when she met Russian President Boris Yeltsin in Moscow in February. The goat is the gift of an admiral at Annapolis, who sent it to her after he read accounts that the brutal Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic had apparently named one of his goats after the then U.N. ambassador. In 1994, when reports circulated in the Iraqi press calling Albright a serpent, she decided to wear the snake pin--in lieu of a name...