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...called her donation a "thank-you" gift to Gilligan, who has taught at Harvard for more than 30 years and whom Fonda said made her realize the "toxic" effect of gender roles...
...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...
...higher job approval ratings at 65 percent than when he came in (yet whom more than half of Americans say they will not miss), has shed a hundred tears for the cameras in his eight years in office. But in a tight seven-and-a-half-minute nationally televised thank-you speech to the American people that was, Clinton insisted with an odd redundance, his last speech "from the Oval Office as your president" (will he sneak back in while Bush is in Europe?), the eyes did not moisten. The lip did not quiver. The naked love of politics...
Nearly three years ago, as Sen. John Ashcroft was considering a run for the presidency, he composed a hand-written thank-you note to a man many politicians would run from. Neatly inscribed on Ashcroft's Senate stationery, the letter went to Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, a firearms lobbying group considered extremist even by many conservatives...
...From the perspective of the Marshalls, it's a thank-you for the Marshall aid," said MIT Professor Linn W. Hobbs, who chairs the Northeast region selection committee. Hobbs confirmed the names of the Harvard winners...