Word: pooling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...pool camera. Bush's photo-op on the ranch Saturday was of a Republican ruling council, looking and sounding sincere but still very capable of scaring the other half of the country to death. Bush and Cheney pulled up tastefully patterned armchairs for House Speaker Denny Hastert, with a wrestling-coach glisten on his face, and Senate boss Trent Lott, looking odd in denim. (Tom DeLay had to wait in the shed until the TV crew left.) Bush was an affable host, sharing the soundbites near-equally, and when it was his turn, he talked at some length about legislation...
...play opens as Tom's wife Nora and her youngest daughter Gail find Gail's husband, Junior, lying in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor. From the first moment it is clear that Nora is off her rocker, an impression wonderfully conveyed by Brittani Sonnenberg '03, whose character manages to remain light and amusing even in the most insane situations. A case in point is the discovery of Junior's body. As Gail tries to help her husband, Nora talks incessantly, theorizing about calling 911, about the seriousness of Junior's bruises, about her relationship with Gail...
...transported to a nameless place where he meets two copies of both himself and his girlfriend from parallel dimensions. And the absurdity only begins there. But beneath the surface, this "farce with a brain" probes deeper issues of the media and identity. So make your way to the Adams Pool Theater for laughter and thought all at once...
Three committees representing the social sciences, humanities and natural sciences selected the students from an original pool of 96 students...
...GIVING O.K., so you're not Bill Gates, and you don't have a charity named after you. But you could start a "poor man's foundation." Such charities, better known as donor-advised funds, allow investors to make irrevocable contributions with relatively low minimums. Generally, these funds pool donations into portfolios; the donor then "advises" the fund on how to spend the money. And if you start one before Dec. 31, you can take the tax deduction--typically up to 50% of your adjusted gross income for cash gifts and 30% for appreciated properties, such as stock--on your...