Word: alma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Willie Keeler and Whitey Ford cut their professional teeth; winds back down south toward Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where Joe McCarthy managed his first team; meets up with the West Branch, which flows past Williams port, the birthplace of Little League Baseball, and Lewisburg, home of Chris ty Mathewson's alma mater, Bucknell University; bisects Harrisburg, where Hall of Fame pitcher Vic Willis got his start; rushes past York, which once knew Brooks Robinson as a second baseman; crosses the border into Maryland and--at long last--enters the Chesapeake Bay at Havre de Grace, which happens to be the birthplace...
...tussles over human rights, weapons sales, nuclear proliferation, Tibet, copyright violations and China's failed bid to join the World Trade Organization, which the U.S. opposed. On May 22 came a seismic jolt: the Clinton Administration gave permission to Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui to visit his American alma mater, Cornell University. China was stunned. The U.S. does not recognize Taiwan as an independent country, and the Chinese perceived the O.K. for Lee's visit as a step in that direction...
Meanwhile, he is thinking, calculating, weighing his choices. And he's talking to Alma...
Will he then roll the dice? He is certainly not saying now. Neither is anyone close to him. Powell and his friends agree that one important vote will come from Alma, the general's wife of 32 years. What is her verdict? "Alma's not opining," says a Powell friend. "But her name isn't Sherman." If elected, she will serve...
...with the Class of 1999. I am proud of her and of all that I am convinced she will accomplish at Harvard and in the years beyond. I hope that she will never be embarrassed by the opportunities she has earned. And I hope that, in the future, our alma mater will not be embarrassed by the tremendous opportunities it represents...