Word: endowment
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...disc could have easily been a lighter and more pleasant affair had the band not taken such a deeply self-serious attitude. Somewhere in between listing their songs alphabetically rather than in track order on the front cover and recording with the Slovak Radio Orchestra, they forgot to endow their music with any sign of levity or vivacity. The end result is a 53-minute lull, as sleep-inducing and unpalatable as warm milk...
...American public has undoubtedly fallen for this myth. His books The Art of the Deal and How To Get Rich fly off the shelves. People watch the show religiously thinking that the mere flickering presence of Donald Trump in their living rooms will endow them with business acumen. Even the contestants on the show tremble at his awe-inspiring presence...
...guaranteed to the straight can be legally denied to the gay, and constitutionally they cannot. If the word “marriage” and its religious connotation are the primary obstacles to the extension of these rights, then let us remove this troublesome word from our laws and endow all of our citizens with the same right to form a civil union with an other in the eyes of the Commonwealth, leaving the terms and conditions of the covenant of marriage where they belong: under the auspices of the church...
...range of ways to endow Iraqis with power offers "no really good solutions," says a senior intelligence official. Washington would prefer to keep the Governing Council, which it handpicked, or expand it to "replenish" the group with broader representation than the current lineup commands. But neither of those arrangements, if managed unilaterally by the U.S., would look more legitimate to Iraqis than the current council, which is broadly dismissed as nothing but a U.S. proxy. Another option bandied about is a grand conference of religious, tribal and ethnic leaders modeled on Afghanistan's loya jirga, which would pick an interim...
...Jones to campus as the newest participant of the Kayden Visiting Artist Program. Jones’ connection to Harvard is extensive—he received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1997, the same year his daughter, Rashida, graduated from the College. Jones also persuaded AOL Time Warner to endow the Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music chair in Harvard’s African and African American studies department. Ingrid Monson, the professor of the popular Core course Literature and Arts B-82, Sayin’ Something: Jazz as Sound, Sensibility, and Social Dialogue, currently occupies the seat...