Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Known as "Sister Prez" on the Spelman campus, Cole's decade-long tenure was marked by a tripling of the school's endowment and a capital campaign which attracted financial support from Oprah Winfrey and a $20-million gift from Bill and Camille Cosby...
...course every building at Harvard comes with its own share of stories to tell, from the "remove-no-stone" edict which accompanied Mrs. Widener's gift to the curious absence of doors on the Holyoke Center. And Maxwell Dworkin has its own share of peculiarities...
...that end, $20 million of Ballmer and Gates' gifts were used for the construction of the center with the other $5 million of their contribution used to support research and endow a Faculty chair. MIT recently announced its own Gates gift, a $20 million gift to its Laboratory of Computer Science...
...parody Russian, wearing that heavy overcoat? One question at a time: Havana because he's looking into the death of a colleague (the Cubans, fed up with Russians, want him to identify the body and scram--but no, Renko investigates); the sweltering coat because it is a last gift from his wife, dead of medical bungling in Moscow. The story is all amiable, well-told bosh, ending with an attempted military coup engineered (it's hard to explain) by a familiar-looking fellow in fatigues...
...Church Street location, he says, experiences a larger rush around the holiday season, drawing the gift-shopping Crate & Barrel crowd...