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Curiously, though, prices seem to have gone up while the rewards of giving have gone down. Witness Ms. Loker's millions for a subterranean "hang-out" and compare it to John Harvard's relatively meager donation for the big prize. It's time we renewed our commitment to giving our donors their money's worth. There is no point in getting overly-sanctimonious. If a name-change didn't seem to bother the school fathers in 1638, who are we to judge in 1997? In our own time, there is even precedent for such a change. In 1992, Mr. Henry...
...always knew where I stood with the whites in the South," Blackwell said. "I knew they would shoot you. I knew they would hang you, so you got to watch out for yourself...
...Life is more interesting. Not only do you get to hang around with creative, intelligent colleagues putting their educations to work, but the children and their families give your days a deeper perspective. As one of my fellow teachers has said, teaching isn't good, but it gives you access to the good. You're not hanging around people who talk about their investments or their business all the time...
...when the market finally blows, you can be sure it'll take the clothes off our backs. The only way to hang onto your threads is to lighten up on stocks now and sell a little more every time the Dow notches a few hundred points higher. That's heresy in today's stock-crazed world. It could mean missing the better part of a huge rally still to come. So no one is going to do it. Heck, we're still throwing $20 billion a month into stock mutual funds. The inflows haven't even slowed, much less stopped...
...rangy body of work. Or even to catch it, since this Florida high school dropout, failed rocker and totally instinctive actor tends to work cult country, where a film's theatrical life-span can be nasty, brutal and short, but where these days the more interesting directors and writers hang...