Word: gifting
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Wilson could have drawn upon plenty of otherexamples where Harvard College has catered to theneeds of its women: the Women's Initiative fundedby a $1.25 million gift from James R. Houghton '58and Maisie K. Houghton '62, a new women'sleadership award funded by the $50,000 TerrieFried Bloom '75 endowment, the celebration ofco-residency in the Yard last fall and a recentgift from Amy Smith Berylson '75 to sponsor anannual lecture featuring women professionals...
...news for Japan's muggers: In a desperate effort to pry open the wallets of its shell-shocked citizenry, the Japanese government is considering sending everyone a check to spend at the mall. The proposed "Happy Mondays" scheme would make more Mondays shopping holidays, and would give everyone a gift voucher worth around $250 in the hopes of reviving Japan's swooning economy from within...
Unfortunately for Lewinsky, her talent for winning people's trust was matched by a weakness for bestowing it. Worse, the person she chose to trust the most had a singular gift for eliciting confessions--and filing them away for later use. Playing the experienced mother superior to Lewinsky's bubbly flying nun, Linda Tripp was the ideal repository for the younger woman's schemes and dreams. Once, in the wee hours of the morning, when Tripp was sleeping over at Lewinsky's apartment, Lewinsky was called by the President, she testified, for what may have been a round of phone...
Dorry's great gift, though, is for living and working, talking and listening in towns shadowed by the threat of ecological calamity--towns like Gloucester, Mass., the heavily Italian old fishing port where she settled four years ago. At first fishermen losing boats to bankruptcy weren't eager to hear their trouble analyzed by a woman environmentalist, and certainly not by a nonreligious Muslim, born in the U.S. of Iranian parents. But the underlying problem, years of overfishing off New England that had caused fish stocks to crash, wouldn't go away. Neither would Dorry. Quietly she spoke to Gloucester...
...time Winfrey was a teenager, her gift as an orator and dramatist had won her considerable popularity at both church and school, and she often recited moving depictions of slave life. She began using the iron-willed protagonists she found in black literature to fire her dreams of rising beyond the back-breaking work that seemed the destiny of most of the black people she knew. "I remember Grandma trying to teach me how to wash clothes and lay them across the line with clothespins, making lye soap, killing the hogs, wringing the chickens' necks, and she'd say, 'Watch...