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...during the summer, Kirkland came up lame in a pickup game. He had pulled a muscle away from his hip making even walking painful. Figuring what the athletic director giveth he can taketh away (ie. scholarships), and wanting to go East, Kirkland found himself at Harvard...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Chemical Benzene Rings Replace Basketball Rims | 3/30/1977 | See Source »

...Carter giveth and the Lord taketh away. I know where my $50 rebate is going-right up the chimney. The economy cannot improve much if all the money is going to one place: the fuel companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 28, 1977 | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...former is hardly a full-time job, and the latter is a ridiculous chore, increasingly honored by neglect. Any additional duties are given to a Vice President at the discretion and whim of the President and, as Hubert Humphrey knowingly reminded Gerald Ford earlier this year, "he who giveth can taketh away-and often does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Making the Best Use of Rockefeller | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

...TIME giveth, and now TIME should take away. Katherine Graham is of course only 53 years old, not 63, as you wrote in your "Wives of Washington" cover story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 14, 1970 | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...artist of the early 13th century, who captured in a few exquisitely jagged brush strokes an illiterate patriarch, howling with glee, tearing up a sutra, or sacred text. It is an Oriental parallel to St. Paul's remark that "the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sudden Enlightenment | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

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