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...arts institutions has dried up, and a migration in philanthropy from historic preservation to social causes is leaving museums behind. Colonial Williamsburg was born as a historical site in 1926 with funding from John D. Rockefeller Jr. But when a modern Rockefeller equivalent, Warren Buffett, recently made his big gift, it was to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's disease hunters, not to museums...
...dreaming big--because all of heaven is dreaming big," Adams continues. "Jesus died for our sins. That was the best gift God could give us," he says. "But we have something else. Because I want to follow Jesus and do what he ordained, God wants to support us. It's Joel Osteen's ministry that told me. Why would an awesome and mighty God want anything less for his children...
...After the industrialist Charles R. Crane purchased the bells from the Soviet Union, he presented them as a gift to University President A. Lawrence Lowell in 1930. Lowell House, then under construction, had its tower redesigned to fit the bells...
...flow of Iranian resources to Lebanon is no secret. But this spending on a faraway Arab community infuriates Iranians and revives an ugly Persian chauvinism that considers Arabs uncultured and backward. One story I heard last week has the wife of Hizballah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah receiving a gift of Iranian caviar and thinking it was some sort...
...majority of Iranians who are barely scraping by, such news is infuriating. In fact, unpopular government spending on a faraway Arab community brings out a rather ugly Persian chauvinism. One story has Mrs. Nasrallah, the wife of Hizballah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, receiving a gift of Iranian caviar, and thinking it some sort of jam. There is no jam that looks like tiny eggs, I told the friend who repeated the story to me. Her look told me I was being obtuse. The fact is, the more President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his government pander to public sentiment in the Arab...