Word: alma
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Like his father, Teddy enjoys going to the movies. His daughter Essie not only carries on this family trait, she actually leaves home to become a 1950s Hollywood star under the name Alma DeMott. Bit parts--"as a gangster's black-haired nightclub date in Hayworth's soggy Affair in Trinidad, as one of the dance-hall 'hostesses' in From Here to Eternity"--lead to co-starring roles with the likes of Cooper, Gable and Crosby. Essie's grandmother, Clarence's widow, sees this triumph as her husband's vindication: "When Clarence--when he--fell, it was so sudden...
RIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, ELAYNE BENNETT, HEAD OF BEST Friends, an organization that encourages schoolgirls to forgo sex, reached into her purse and found a piece of paper that board member Alma Powell had slipped in there a few days before. It turned out to be a check from General Colin Powell providing the major portion of matching funds for a $200,000 challenge grant. "I couldn't believe it, and I almost lost it," confesses Bennett. "Alma gave it to me with so little fanfare...
...Minister post-1948. But since then, the LDP has regained its influence, and politics has returned to form. Now there is a chance for a real election between two parties with distinct candidates. "This is very good for Japan," says Yasuhiko Torii, president of Tokyo's Keio University, the alma mater of Ozawa and Hashimoto. "Politics is very different. Ozawa and Hashimoto will have to really debate...
...there are those who argue that, out of a sense of brotherhood, Harvard should memorialize the deaths in battle of all those who call her alma mater. The day we adopt this policy, however, is the day history loses all meaning for us. At its core, a memorial is a powerful, dramatic way of telling a story. It should extract a moral from history, one that assigns meaning the past. If Harvard memorializes those who fought for both sides during the Civil War, what possible moral or meaning can this watershed event retain...
...giving official recognition to Taiwan, which Beijing considers a mere renegade province. Indeed, China protested Washington's move, but analysts here note that Beijing's reaction was in fact quite mild compared to its vehement outrage over the visit of Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui to his American alma mater last June. Beijing's reprisal then included the expulsion last August of two American air force officers who had been monitoring Chinese military operations in southern Fujian province...