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Though I had even higher aspirations, apparently my mom was so impressed with my graduation from sixth grade that she bought me a gift: an incredibly cool gold-chain necklace. The chain said to all who saw it, Sure, I may look like an honor student who is bad at sports and gets stomachaches before parties, but I am actually capable of horrific violence, passionate lovemaking and savage indifference to a tribe of orcs with my +2 broadsword. I wore that chain every day, from sixth grade to 17th grade, when my new girlfriend told me I had to take...
...down better in the land that he freely admits to loving. Typically, Brown has a policy proposal ready for the U.S. presidential candidates, one he ran past McCain during the Senator's recent visit to London. "I was trying to sell him on the idea that America's gift to the world should be to offer every child the chance of education," says Brown, adding that there are 72 million primary school-age children in the world not enrolled for class. "That would do more for people's perception of America than almost anything else...
...which is assisting the couple in their project, said that “their association with the Fogg goes back to the early years of their life as collectors.” She added that the “primary reason” for the couple’s gift is their long-standing relationship with Harry Cooper, now at the National Gallery, who had served as the head of HUAM’s modern art department. Fine described the Vogels’ collection as “daring” and “intelligent...
...Then there is language. English may be Britain's greatest gift to India (which, today, is home to the world's largest English-speaking population), but Hindi has spiced the language with a masala of words long-since codified in its dictionaries: chit, guru, jungle, pajamas, pundit, sentry, shampoo, and thug, to name just a few. Indian cuisine long ago surpassed fish-and-chips as Britain's most popular restaurant food. Or, at least, "Anglo-Indian" - England's most popular "Indian" dish, chicken tikka masala, is actually a British invention, since exported to the land that inspired it. Indian property...
Tufts University and Lesley University announced yesterday that they had received a combined gift of $272 million, the largest donation that either school has ever received. The universities will evenly split the money from the trust of Frank Currier Doble, founder of the Boston-based Doble Engineering Company. Doble, who died nearly 40 years ago, majored in electrical engineering at Tufts and served as a trustee at Lesley for over two decades. Calling the gift from Doble’s trust “phenomenal,” Lesley President Joseph B. Moore said that “there?...