Word: alma
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...from Zhirinovsky's autobiography, The Last Thrust to the South, a book that James Billington, U.S. Librarian of Congress, calls "in some respects psychologically an even more unstable work than Mein Kampf." In it, Zhirinovsky recounts in extravagant detail the injustices of an emotionally and economically deprived childhood in Alma-Ata, the capital of Kazakhstan...
...visit to Alma-Ata and conversations with several of those who knew him as a boy reveal a quite different picture. He writes, for example, of living in squalor with his mother in a filthy communal apartment where he had to endure the indignities of a communal toilet ("it smelled bad"). Yet the two-story house was, at the time, one of the best in the city, constructed during the 1930s for elite Russian workers. "Zhirinovsky complains there was no hot water, but it was a rare house in Alma-Ata that had hot water then," recalls Vladimir Rerikh...
...draft a letter of complaint to the Late Show -- the first such formal protest. bane president Shahjahan Mahmood recalls how a graduation party for the son of a friend was consumed by talk of Mujibur and Sirajul. Nancy Hossain, wife of Mukit (and a graduate of Letterman's alma mater, Ball State), has also noticed the pair's increasing prominence in Bangladeshi dinner chat: At one gathering "someone said, 'Hey, maybe these simple men really are the face of Bangladesh.' He was shouted down...
Bill Clinton returns to Oxford to inhale the rarefied air of his alma mater... and be confronted by echoes of his scruffy, rebellious past
Like Distler, most undergraduates have ideas on how to spend the pot of cash their alma mater is amassing. They ought to. Students--though not those at Harvard now--will be affected more than anyone else by the transformations the money will cause...