Word: platinum
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...something else. So I got to thinking about how Harvard might spend my gift, and how Harvard spends the extra money it already has. You only have to think of the Memorial Hall Tower (Motto: "Beauty is Its Own Excuse for Being Useless," or "Less Wasteful than a Platinum Sombrero") to know that Harvard's spending habits are a scary picture...
...cell phone as we walk among the blazing office towers and the gridlocked SUVs, along a frozen sidewalk on the Avenue of the Americas in New York City, from which we call a colleague in an airplane who, while speaking to us, is faxing an application for a Platinum card and e-mailing a color photo of his beaming children, taken with a digital camera and put on a CD, to a screen in his home in Connecticut, where the kids are playing Pokemon (don't ask) or dancing to Livin' la Vida Loca (don't ask), before he trades...