Word: alma
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...witnessed from their living-room window in Brooklyn Heights. Michael and his partner had taken out personal bank loans to keep their business afloat, but their few potential clients disappeared. Michael and Cindy began to fantasize about getting away from it all. Last May, Cindy called her high school alma mater in Hawaii to see whether there were any teaching openings for Michael, who at one point had taught an undergraduate film course at Boston College. He got a job teaching English at summer school, so the couple sublet their New York apartment at a profit and moved into...
Stewart said he decided to take the position primarily because of the Business Review's excellent reputation for academic business journalism-not because he had missed his alma mater...
...Fisher social savvy. This time, it’s Willie, who’s at the Fly. “Yeah, we’re going to make a night out of it tonight,” Fisher says. Willie is a friend from Fisher’s alma mater, St. Albans, in Washington, D.C. Fisher is quick to point out, however, that’s he no D.C. native. “I’ve actually lived in Dallas my whole life but just moved to D.C. four years ago for high school,” he explains...
...achievement would prove more challenging. At Forman Christian College, a Presbyterian boarding school in Lahore, Musharraf found his metier: competitive athletics. If his brothers had always been better at figures and letters, Pervez would prove himself on the playing fields. Nasrullah Khan, a schoolmate who now heads his alma mater's botany department, remembers Musharraf entering a bodybuilding competition in his freshman year in which students struck poses before a panel of teachers in the gymnasium. Gola's baby fat had melted away; he took third place...
McCann, one of seven Hobey Baker finalists in school history, wrapped up a career in the AHL and IHL last season. Now he is looking forward to stepping behind the bench at his alma mater...