Word: gift
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...afraid of the dark. Using his imposing physical presence, Duncan illustrates this juxtaposition while communicating the integrity that defines his character - a nave innocence contrasted with a keenly insightful spirit and a loving soul. In Edgecomb's eyes, this contrast, along with Coffey's miraculous "gift," casts doubt onto his alleged guilt, allowing him to see Coffey not as a murderer, but as a man wrongfully accused...
...Convincing his fellow guards of John's powers, Edgecomb arranges to have John secretly brought to the terminally ill wife of Warden Hal Moores, who is suffering from a brain tumor. In a moving scene, he revives the warden's wife and convinces all those present that his miraculous gift is real...
...gift from God? That's certainly what it seems like. Coffey truly seems to be a Christ figure - a man with mysterious origins, a pure soul, and the power to heal. Furthermore, there are two executions that take place before John is scheduled to die - in both cases, the issue of penance is key. Perhaps they represent the two thieves who died alonside Jesus? The allusion seems too obvious to ignore...
According to the school's daily newspaper, Lee Bass, a 1979 alumnus, was prepared to grant $20 million to Yale for programs on Western civilization, but the gift was contingent on one thing--that he have a say in selecting faculty members...
...deed of gift, the Turkish government specified the conditions of its $750,000 donation, which was matched by private donors. The professor should have "a direct knowledge of Turkey and Turkish studies and whose published works are based on extensive utilizations of archives and libraries in Turkey," says the document, as quoted in the Daily Princetonian...