Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House, Harvard's student-run public service organization, did not directly benefit from the tremendous found drive that Harvard just completed. In fact, as is true of most student organizations at Harvard, PBH students do all their fundraising themselves. And contrary to popular belief, all of Harvard is not rich...
When trying to solicit funds, student organizations at the richest university in the land often hear expressions of protest from potential givers: "Why are you asking me for money? You guys are rich," or "I gave to Harvard already...
After his arrest for committing a series of armed robberies, Jose Luis Razo told reporters that no one at Harvard understood him. Razo's attorney plans to defend his client by arguing that the sophomore football player robbed from the rich to prove that he was still "a homeboy." The media loves the story: a latter day Robin Hood psychologically torn between attending the bastion of northeastern elitism, Harvard, and proving to his friends that he was true to his Hispanic roots...
Shrewd, grasping, rich old Cesar Soubeyran (Yves Montand) and his simpleton nephew Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil) covet their neighbor's land. Each has his reasons, but they are not good enough. Not enough, that is, to justify their terrible plot to force the decent, innocent newcomer known as Jean de Florette (Gerard Depardieu), his patient wife and lovely child to sell their holdings at a distressed price. The Soubeyrans' idea is simple: stop up the neighbor's spring. But the execution is grim and protracted; the plotters stand by, offering sympathy but no practical assistance as Jean descends first to exhaustion...
Writers want to be read; most of them will also confess to dreams of striking it rich. Every so often, reality conspires to reward both desires at once. The latest beneficiary of this bolt-from-the-blue largesse is a Chicagoan named Scott Turow, 38. Since 1978 he has been a lawyer in his hometown, working for eight years in the U.S. Attorney's office and then as a partner in a private firm. He has also, like thousands of others among the gainfully employed, written in his spare time. Eventually he completed his first novel. Unlike most such manuscripts...