Word: alma
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...provide a cohesive body of traditional knowledge as a Core program. Yale, for example, has no core curriculum and relatively unstructured distribution requirements. But Yale is building a reputation as a center for Western Civilization study. In 1991, Yale graduate Lee M. Boss pledged $20 million to his alma mater, stating that "the study of Western Civilization is essential to developing students' understanding of the ideas that have shaped America...
Ring said she was happy to return to her alma mater to teach. "I enjoyed law school, am familiar with some of its faculty members and resources and the quality is really very impressive," she said...
...atmosphere, then, is properly ominous at Camp Shelter, where Delia, Catherine and sisters Lenny and Alma explore a wilderness that mirrors their own sexual stirrings and confusion. The woods are dark, deep and haunted by both Christian and pagan spirits. A character named Parson flits in and out of Phillips' story as a sort of Fundamentalist avenger. Nature comes guileless in the person of Buddy, a knowing child of the forest, and Nature comes sinister in the form of Buddy's father Carmody, a backwoods pervert who would not have been out of place in James Dickey's Deliverance...
Despite his claim of having had "almost no education," the school where Zhirinovsky spent 11 years was actually the most prestigious institution of its kind in Alma- Ata. His fellow students came from the families of top party functionaries and KGB officers. Indeed, as classmate Yuri Anoshin explains, the school, following a popular practice of factories and government offices at the time, was "adopted" by the local KGB administration. This enabled Zhirinovsky and his peers to enjoy such rare amenities as flowers, potted palm trees, upholstered armchairs and pet canaries...
...Zhirinovsky's own account, his father was Volf Andreyevich Zhirinovsky, a legal adviser with the Turkish- Siberian railway, who died in a car crash before Zhirinovsky was born. But an American reporter working for the Associated Press and CNN recently unearthed a set of alleged family documents in Alma-Ata suggesting that Zhirinovsky's real father was a man named Volf Isaakovich Edelshtein, a name most Russians assume to be Jewish. Zhirinovsky claims the documents are forged, and has vigorously denied Jewish heritage...