Word: gifting
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...been forced into a fascinating pas de deux, coordinating their steps while not so secretly resenting the necessity of their partnership. ''Mandela and De Klerk,'' says A.N.C. spokesman Carl Niehaus, ''were delivered to each other by history.'' Neither one, in the season of their triumphs, seems grateful for the gift of the other. But those triumphs are immense. These unlikely allies created the conditions for an event the world could
...ghost. Peace settlements in South Africa and the Middle East will bury the bloody shirt, shut down the past as an imperative. The projects of Mandela-De Klerk and Arafat-Rabin are not yet realized, of course. Leaders must bring followers along. Leaders must exercise the visionary's gift. They must tell their people a new story about themselves (in these cases, the story of themselves at peace, to replace their older myth of struggle) and make it plausible. Peace is a way of reimagining the world. Often the peace must actually be made before people will embrace the idea...
Soper said the controversy over last year’s Senior Gift motivated him to get involved...
...gave me an incentive to be a part of this new gift committee because I really believe that the Senior Gift is an important contribution to Harvard,” he said...
While the gift will be an significant contribution to either the financial aid fund or unrestricted fund, according to Washington, it also has other importance...