Word: alma
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...John Eliot Scholarship, named for a 1622 graduate of Cambridge's Jesus College who went on to found Roxbury Latin School and become a Harvard Overseer, will join the Lt. Charles Henry Fiske III Scholar and the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholar for a year at John Harvard's alma mater...
Just in case anyone was wondering, though, the pillars never crumbled, the ivy never withered and Langdell Hall never collapsed. It would take considerably more than typical political scandals to "ruin" the monolithic Harvard Law School. In fact, money from slums came pouring into support their alma mater in its time of need. Today students remember the series of events, which received a great deal of press at the time, merely as a quickly passing episode. As one Harvard alum and Boston native remarked," sometimes news makes news...
Last week the Kazakhstan inventory of uranium was half a ton lighter as officials in Washington and the Kazakh capital of Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata) announced that the team, after six weeks of feverish activity, had successfully moved the material to the Oak Ridge nuclear-storage facility in Tennessee. Over the next several months, the Energy Department will entertain offers from private industry to turn the highly enriched uranium into lower- grade commercial reactor fuel. The Administration touted the mission as a good reason to keep money flowing to the beleaguered Nunn-Lugar account. The fund -- named for sponsors Senator...
...called Lauren--son of fashion maven Ralph Lauren--to investigate how he was going to transform the undergraduate journal he created at his alma mater, Duke University, into a national glossy. Swing first attracted my attention at the June Presidential Gala held at the New York Sheraton Hotel. At the Democratic fund-raiser, 20-something women were fawning over a certain not-so-tall guy in a loose-fitting navy pinstripe suit. He was David, they said, and he was starting a magazine for Generation X--American 20-somethings whom he (and the executives marketing Swing) knew to have tremendous...
...Brooks' last grab for a slab of bacon proved too much for his sated constituency. After he managed to get $10 million for the Jack Brooks Criminal Justice Center at Brooks' alma mater Lamar College slipped into the crime bill, voters saw pork for the bad financial bargain it is -- two dollars in federal taxes for every one that might come back to the district in the form of pork. Stockman, who had been trounced by Brooks in 1992, saw his chance and tried again. Some Republicans in Texas ignored him as a wild man. (Stockman unfurled posters that said...