Word: largess
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Most of the investigators—including well over a dozen at Harvard—retain their academic posts at their home universities while working off Hughes’ largess...
...according to Greenblatt, who was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2004 for his Shakespeare biography, “Will in the World,” it wasn’t Harvard’s largess that brought him here...
...features, apart from size, generally reside in their embellishments. Braiding, grommets, colored leather and pleating are all par of the course on these bags, in which excess is premium. They are usually slouchy and slightly ironic, a throwback to the drug-induced, suede-swathed seventies or the shoulder-padded largess of the 1980s. For those of us Harvard students who are not a size two, but still want to participate in this trend, there is something eminently practical about a bag that is as large as a rolling suitcase that you would take on a heritage trip to Malaysia. First...
...just outside a major East Coast city, and I do not receive any financial aid from Harvard. I would imagine, then, that most people would be rather surprised by my family’s rather humble background. I, and many others like me, do not attend Harvard on the largess of a trust fund but rather the ceaseless hard work of my parents. The Adomanis family has no inherited wealth; we earned and paid very significant taxes on everything we gained. My parents will accrue a very substantial debt in order to send me here, and they meet the tuition...
...going to benefit from this largess? It won’t be the poor Superdome victims highlighted on national television. Instead, chances are that cronyism and corruption will line the pockets of well-connected businessmen and officials. The government has a proven inability to manage and oversee spending (just think about the Big Dig), and Louisiana—a byword for political corruption—is probably the last place in America that should get billions of no-strings-attached dollars. This is the state that ranked third in per capita public corruption convictions over the past decade. (Neighborhing Mississippi...