Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brown got two gift-wrapped runs back in the third, packaging three Harvard errors--two by Carey and one by Bridich, who was playing left--with an RBI single by second baseman Jeff Lawler to close...
NAME: ALLEN "ME, MYSELF &" IVERSON AGE: 23 OCCUPATION: Punk with the gift of dunk BEST PUNCH: Said of Barkley in response: "What has he done? Nothing but spit on kids, throw people through windows, and talk racist when he has a white wife, and talk crazy about black people. He's nobody...
...sage and of the dampness held in the earth"--he goes back in memory to his boyhood days of picking apples, his teenage courtship of Rachel, his service in Italy during World War II. Though the narrative is as vagrant as Snow Falling on Cedars was rooted, Guterson's gift for spinning atmospheric spells has not deserted him, and moment after moment flashes into life with the quick vividness of a photograph: the men in war going out "in mattress covers sewn into snow tunics and in creepers made of tightly knotted rope," the young couple romancing as "the apples...
Radcliffe and Harvard will together have to convince older alumnae, many of whom have the most money to give, that their gift will be a long-lasting legacy. In Tuesday's press conference, Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine noted that any institute for advanced study must sustain itself primarily through donations...
Armini noted that one seven-figure gift that had been "in the pipeline" several weeks ago has been finalized since the announcement...