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...white pickup rolled up, and the crowd got silent. A body wrapped in a yellow-and-orange blanket was lifted out of the bed. A nurse tried to dump out the puddles that had collected on the plastic mattress of a gurney and the body was lifted onto it. "He was 70 years old," said one of the crowd. "A martyr...
...course, not every family loan is a disaster. In the best of circumstances, such transactions can benefit everyone involved. "If all goes well, then it's a win-win situation," says Gurney. "You've helped a family member, and they've proved their trustworthiness. Still, you should go into any of these loans with your eyes wide open. The primary currency in a family is love and support. When you lend money, you're risking losing these...
...person who borrowed becomes more vulnerable and feels less than the person they have borrowed the money from," says Kathleen Gurney, founder and CEO of Financial Psychology Corp., a consulting company based in Sarasota, Fla. "It's not a level playing field anymore." Resentment and guilt can build up, threatening even the deepest of bonds...
...Current Gurney Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature James Engell remembered Buckley—who retired in 1987—as extremely selfless and giving...
Buckley, who was Gurney professor of English literature emeritus, came to Harvard in 1969 at the height of campus turmoil...