Gift
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US
Bloomberg’s $1 Billion Gift for Free Medical School Applies but Not to All
A donation from Bloomberg Philanthropies will provide free tuition for Johns Hopkins medical students, if their families make less than $300,000 a year.
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Newyork
My In-Laws Gave Gifts to Two Grandchildren, but Not to a Third. Help!
Two years after one of her children received a generous birthday gift, a reader wonders whether to intervene on behalf of her overlooked child.
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Books
With $60 Million Gift, San Francisco Ballet Plans Focus on New Works
The transformative contribution, from an anonymous donor, is the largest in the company’s 91-year history and one of the biggest ever to an American dance group.
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Newyork
Is It OK to Send Condolence Notes to Strangers?
A mother feels an urge to send her sympathies to the family of her son’s classmate who recently died, but she worries it could be an upsetting overstep.
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Newyork
Moments in the ‘Buy Nothing’ Life
Borrowing the style of Joan Didion’s “The White Album,” a writer considers an online gifting hub where people try to give away unwanted stuff.
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Newyork
Our Vacation Destination Has a Poor Human Rights Record. Should We Go?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to travel to a country ruled by an oppressive regime.