Word: everly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...doubt Harvard would ever do anything like this--its general attitude seems to be that innovative student-life programs are for weak sissy colleges. Mandate a semester off and you might as well change the school colors to yellow and granola. The official excuse would probably be that students need all 32 half-courses to really complete a Harvard education. Really. I seriously doubt that you'll even remember what you learned in Literature and Arts B-57, "Leonardo da Vinci Meets Leonardo di Caprio" two years later--in its place will be jokes you got over e-mail...
...previous largest donation to a university was a $300 million gift in 1998 to Vanderbilt University, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. The largest single gift ever given to Harvard is a donation of $75.5 million...
...received a pledge for $350 million yesterday to create a new institute on brain research, the largest single gift to a university ever. The institute will focus on the way humans learn and communicate...
...people you know, say, at a family gathering, you see the uncle who lent some money but was never paid back, and you know all the family quarrels. It becomes so three-dimensional when you have all that history, so much more interesting. I don't think I could ever leave this place." She has become one of the family...
What happened to the passion, the fun, the work involved in finding a life mate? The foolishness, the excitement, the fear and longing? Apparently this couple didn't feel that those little perks were necessary to their peculiar version of happy ever after. Why did he opt to select a wife from among a group of women who agreed to a public competition--including a mortifying swimsuit parade? Ego? Desperation? Maybe Rockwell simply has a wacky sense of humor. Surely there's a punch line yet to come...