Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mittelman, a bond manager for Harvard Management Company who earned $3.7 million last year according to The Boston Globe, refused to speak to The Crimson about his $1,000 gift to the Weld campaign...
Twenty million dollars of the gift will be used to construct a state-of-the-art research and teaching facility. The remaining $5 million will support research and endow a faculty chair, said Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis...
...Torre has a face like...well, like the gift his sister gave him when she went into the convent in 1951. "She gave me a baseball glove, a Rawlings," the New York Yankees manager recalled a few days before he was to lead his team into its 34th World Series but his first. "She told me to say an Our Father every time I put the glove on, figuring if she gave me rosary beads, I'd never...
...Millennium (Fridays, 9 p.m. EDT, Fox) seem like the sort of unwholesome entertainment that would send Bob Dole into a frenzied new round of Hollywood bashing. The shows share the same premise: a central character brings down Hannibal Lecter-type psychopaths by using an uncanny gift to see inside the criminal mind, literally envisioning the evildoers' motivations. In the process both series serve up images unusually brutal for prime-time TV: severed heads, bodies crackling in flames, victims buried alive, near naked women beaten and stabbed to death...
...this has to do with him, so Osnard explains. Not only do Panama City's elite gather for fittings and gossip at Pendel & Braithwaite; Harry also personally tends to both the current Panamanian President and the general in charge of the U.S. Southern Command. "You're God's gift, Harry," Osnard says. "Classic, ultimate listening post." After the carrot comes the stick: "Why blow the whistle on old Braithwaite, make a fool o' you to your wife and kids, break up the happy home? We want you, Harry. You've got a hell of a lot to sell...