Word: thank-you
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...When it comes to tabloids, I read only the headlines. So help me: just whom was Crowe accused of kidnaping?) The famous bad boy from Down Under did his usual Oscar act, glowering and chewing gum. But as the Best Actor winner, he gave a gracious, charming and articulate thank...
...about love. When we did "Lucky" for Britney, that concept came when we sat down and thought about her and her life. We thought it would be a great story to tell. " Larger than Life," from the Backstreet Boys, which we wrote with one of the guys, is a thank-you song to one of the fans, realizing that the kind of group that they are is fan-based. It's a movement...
Some women simply liked her style. "She's so imaginative, so creative," said one attendee. Others cited her enormous success as a businesswoman and entrepeneur. But when it came time to give the thank-you speech, a middle-aged professor spoke excitedly about the colors of Martha Stewart paint she uses in her homes. Yes, homes, plural. Apparently Martha buys homes like I try on shoes (her words, not mine...
...economists will arrive to fill President Neil L. Rudenstine's shoes. (Other issues aside, the presidential search committee must have thought, "Who better than Lawrence H. Summers to figure out what to do with our endowment now?") After a decade of Rudenstine-style wining and dining (with hand-written thank-you notes, no doubt), Summers will navigate the stirring end product: an extravagant $19 billion endowment, mostly comprised of alumni donations...
...probe for this essence, officers now pore over transcripts, parse teacher recommendations and consult regularly with high school guidance counselors. Then they gather for closed-door deliberations that range from the celebratory (a budding feminist poet is crowned "the next Anne Sexton") to the snippy ("Her thank-you note to her interviewer looks like a third-grader wrote it"). Rarely, if ever, do these discussions touch on SATs, even for students who turn in 800s. The committee does dwell, however, on other scores, like those on Advanced Placement exams, SAT II's if students submit them and even state tests...