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...time for their 25th reunion this spring, members of the Harvard Class of 1981 have created a scholarship fund to sponsor African graduate students. In a rare arrangement with the University, alumni donations to the fund will be recognized as part of their class gift...
...Jonathan Papelbon sig) around the stately Kirkland JCR. Ask a question, get a prize. Ask a particularly flattering question, get a sweet prize. And so it was a surprise, really, when members of the Harvard baseball team, which co-sponsored the event, presented the Boston head man with a gift...
...worst times of his life, he said, he received an unexpected gift from an apparently anonymous source. His mother, Elyse, dropped a care package from the mail in front of him. A big care package...
...into the papacy, Benedict quickly erased the stereotypes surrounding him from the quarter-century he spent overseeing orthodoxy for John Paul. Even in the first weeks, it was clear that he was not a chilly and unbending bureaucrat, but a basically gentle man with excellent listening skills and a gift with words. He has welcomed his longtime theological nemesis Hans K?ng for a long chat at the Pope's Castel Gandolfo. Benedict's first encyclical was not a finger-wagging treatise on doctrine, but a paean to Christian love. The sometimes shy pontiff has even begun to enjoy...
...divide indefinitely. Each time it cleaves, it makes two daughter cells with different fates. One divides again and again and again, spawning hundreds of copies of itself before exhausting its powers of duplication and dying out. The other progeny is a bit more cunning, inheriting from its parent the gift of never-ending life. That cell resists the temptation to multiply and march to an inevitable death, choosing instead to divide only occasionally and, by doing so, live forever...