Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Each year, Harvard hopes that with the stroke of a pen, graduating seniors will keep their alma mater close to their hearts and their checkbooks by making donations to the senior gift...
...Yorker, she is indisputably the greatest buzz generator in the history of American publishing, author of the notion that a magazine must be talked about and not just read. Her new partner is himself no slouch in this regard: Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of Miramax Films, whose gift for salesmanship has helped generate 110 Academy Award nominations and 30 actual Oscars over the past decade for his company's generally ambitious movies (which include the likes of The Piano, Pulp Fiction and Good Will Hunting, as well as Scream). The third member of what Weinstein refers to, perhaps inevitably...
...normally publicize her acts of charity, but these alms came armed with a statement. "I am making this donation in sisterhood with and in memory of Linda McCartney," she said, adding that she hoped the donation would bring attention to the charity's work. Her reason for the gift is startling, given that Ono was not invited to the memorial service Paul McCartney held for Linda in New York City last month. Paul and Yoko were never close, but detente was declared when Free as a Bird was released in 1995. Then last year Ono told the BBC that Paul...
...family limited partnership effectively allows you to make a gift of assets at a discount of as much as 40% of their actual value, thus allowing you to give about $16,000 tax free per person per year--considerably more than the customary $10,000 limit. It works because the assets in a partnership, which has restrictions, are deemed less valuable than the same assets in an unrestricted account...
Dwelling in the sulfurously lighted basement apartment of Simon's house, Henry is the Devil--a devil, anyway--with a gift for inspiring those he does not repel. An apt pupil, Simon composes a long poem that some people hate ("Drop dead," reads a publisher's rejection note; "keep your day job") but others champion. Simon becomes a literary celebrity, and in gratitude to his mentor says he will insist that his publisher also issue Henry's opus. Then, alas, he reads...