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...pension of $33.2 million. It was based on 44 years of employment at CSX. Unlike most ordinary people, who must work the actual years on which their pension is calculated, Snow was employed just 26 years. The additional 18 years of his CSX employment history were fictional, a gift from the company's board of directors...
...spring, when it will open at Yale. Over the winter, a golf simulator at the Murr Center—which gives the speed of the ball when it hits the screen—will be available for the team to practice with.“[It was] a gift from the Friends of Harvard Golf,” Isner said. “It’s as legitimate to winter golf as we’re going to get around here.”***For months, they’ve practiced every Tuesday to Thursday at the Brookline Country...
...very best pages here are without doubt the first 400, which Isherwood polished into a sharp-eyed narrative, and in which the shock of discovery between the kindly British ironist and California's odd circles of philosophers, quacks and movie stars was most electric. Isherwood's gift was for bringing a clear-eyed sympathy and an irreverent open-mindedness to even the most outlandish scenes. Almost every page, in Isherwood's best moments, is alive with immortal incident (Dylan Thomas pawing Shelley Winters at The Players restaurant, or a local hostess mistaking Stravinsky for "a comic on the Molly Goldberg...
...Connie Zong ’06, the Adams HoCo co-chair, against pursuing a relationship with JetBlue. While the airline’s donation of the ticket did not violate any rules, Kidd told FM in an e-mail, “corporate sponsorship, as differentiated from a corporate gift, is not allowed.”“It is not fine for JetBlue to sponsor a brain break or an event,” Kidd wrote. “It is not okay for Harvard students, as campus reps, to advertise JetBlue in Dorms, Houses or College buildings...
...can’t help wanting a piece. “The Craft,” the Sacramento duo’s third album, somewhat surprisingly released on the self-styled “Indie Punk and Hardcore” label Epitaph’s Anti imprint, has Gift of Gab and Chief Xcel poised for widespread success. Since 1999’s “A2G” EP launched the group into the ranks of underground stardom with the anti-mainstream anthem “Deception,” Blackalicious has gone on a solidly successful run. They...