Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over a year ago, Chik came under University scrutiny when the first installment in a million gift from Hong Kong entrepreneur York Liao disappeared en route to Cambridge. Chik finally repaid Harvard last March, writing a check for $385,000--an inexplicable $52,000 more than he actually owed...
...after the loss to Yale, the Crimson could not gift-wrap a victory for their injured star on her birthday and fell to Brown...
SLIP OF THE PEN The Senate gift shop had better stock up on these. The pens used to sign the pledge that Senators would remain impartial during the trial had a misprint. Gillette has offered to replace the pens but so far has only received requests for more...
...this, parents should try to make a virtue of necessity. We should bone up on (or remember) the knowledge we value and teach it to our children. Sometimes it will be academic subject matter, but just as often it will be a value or an attitude. Perhaps the greatest gift my mother gave me when I was young was her commitment to sit just behind me each day when I practiced the piano. She said little, though she would occasionally make a comment or suggest that we listen to a record or go to a concert. I learned to love...
...looking to the Carl J. Shapiro Institute to continue its development of innovative teaching methods for medical students and to expand its efforts for resident training and continuing medical education," Martin said. "This gift greatly accelerates our ability to reach that goal...