Word: benefactors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There goes Joanie. It was billed as the clash of the late-night titans, but just seven months after Joan Rivers went head to head with her old benefactor Johnny Carson, the star of The Late Show is being dimmed. The acerbic comedian last week became the latest in a long list of contenders who have tried and failed to dethrone the reigning monarch of the midnight airwaves. In response to increasingly disappointing ratings, Fox Broadcasting Co. decided that beginning this week Rivers was through as the regular host, although she may alternate with a roster of as-yet-unnamed...
...money to aid the Nicaraguan contras. North was so taken with the prince that he went to Ronald Reagan and National Security Council Adviser Robert McFarlane and told them of the expected donation. As matters turned out, there was no money and no prince: the would-be contra benefactor was Mousalreza Ibrahim Zadeh, an expatriate Iranian swindler who has pleaded guilty to bank fraud and faces five years in jail...
...bond of the surrogate mother really possess such moral weight? Here an analogy seems appropriate. If the surrogate mother's child cannot legitimately be taken from her by force of contract, what about an artist's creation? Can the work of an artistic genius be sold? Say a wealthy benefactor commissions a statue by some modern-day Michelangelo. In the process of creating a masterpiece, he grows so attached to the work that he cannot bear to part with it. Must...
Over the years, the Freshman Union has been the scene of goldfish swallowings, food fights and ghosts. But, the Union's original benefactor, Major Henry Lee Higginson (class of 1855), never intended it to host any of these somewhat lowly activities. Nor, as a matter of fact, did he intend the Union to be a dining area or for it to be exclusively for freshmen...
...first step Harvard should take is to sell name rights to dining hall delicacies. Food would then be referred to with its appropriate benefactor, such as the "Widener Beef Stew," "Weld Cod Scallops," or "Loeb Pu Pu platter." The dish owners might then take a special interest in the dish that bares their name, and offer funds for necessary improvements like even finer fine herbs on the chicken, or less congealed grease over the broccoli-cheese pasta...