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...humans protect themselves from the outside world and the moment in which this protection begins to wear down. Eloise McCormack, the self-professed virtuoso cellist who coaches young Tibor on his technique, eventually confesses that she cannot play the cello. She justifies this by claiming that other, less-gifted teachers would have destroyed her innate gift if she had taken lessons with them: “I knew I had to protect my gift against people who, however well-intentioned they were, could completely destroy it.” Yet this confession diminishes her into a pathetic figure leading...
...posted a 38 percent increase in unrestricted gift receipts available for immediate use—from $24 million to $33 million—over the past fiscal year ending June...
...Tobel—who first envisioned the Web site during her senior year at Harvard—said that LearnVest aims to be more personalized than other financial Web sites. It walks users through financial milestones from getting a first job to paying off student loans, then offers gift cards and other rewards when they complete units on the site...
...foundation also gave $50 million in 2002 for brain research at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT, at that point the largest single gift MIT had received from a foundation...
...exchange for participating in the study, the students will receive a $5 gift card to JP Licks every other week while the study is in progress...