Word: inheritence
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...life must make the world look different. Different than it looks to normal people who have to worry about money all their lives. Different than it looks to the conventionally rich, who get that way over the course of many years. Different, even, than it looks to those who inherit wealth and therefore grow up knowing it's coming. Of course! You get married, then you retire, then you have kids. That's life. In the stock-option culture, it makes perfect sense...
...inherit, one must be alive,” the historian John Dunn has written. Our collective inheritance is also our challenge to stay alive, to revitalize. Take the case of Harvard College, our oldest and still central institution. By many measures it seems beyond improvement: it has more applicants, and thus greater selectivity, than ever before; its students excel in class (even if not all of them earn A’s); and they succeed in all kinds of postgraduate competitions, not to mention careers. Yet if we take the College for granted, we will quickly find it diminished...
Having contented himself with the role of sixth man for three years, Merchant was universally recognized as one of those people due to inherit the earth. But there was nothing meek about his last-ever game against Princeton, when Merchant exploded for a game-high 22 points, his two three-pointers in the final minute singlehandedly bringing Harvard within a basket of toppling the Tigers...
Nearly every component of the Cambridge Public School system that Fowler-Finn will inherit is afflicted by major problems—almost all of which have been exacerbated by the events of the past year...
Fowler-Finn will inherit this legacy when he takes the helm this fall...