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...culture? Is it Ramon Estevez, a.k.a. Martin Sheen, playing Anglo President Josiah Bartlet on The West Wing? Does it even have to be played by a Hispanic actor? Spokeswoman Lisa Navarrete of the National Council of La Raza, which makes these distinctions every year when it gives out its ALMA awards in film, TV and music, says the answer is not cut and dried. (The group once even recognized non-Latino Nicholas Turturro for playing a Latino cop on NYPD Blue.) "We want [Hispanic] actors to be able to play Shakespeare and the whole gamut of roles," she says...
George W. Bush has a curious relationship with his alma mater. On Monday, the President delivered a short, light-hearted speech to the graduating students of Yale, where he was class of 1968. It made sense for Bush to be there. He is, after all, a third generation Yalie, and his daughter Barbara made it four generations when she entered as a freshman last year. And yet Bush has spent the better part of the last 25 years scorning the elitism and the intellectual snobbery that he says he encountered at Yale...
...Obara had graduated from Keio University (alma mater of newly elected Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi) with degrees in politics and law, become a naturalized Japanese citizen and legally changed his name to Obara. Once he had expunged his Korean lineage, Obara, with his wealth and his educational background, could have entered the nation's ruling élite, becoming, perhaps, a top bureaucrat or corporate chieftain. Instead he became a man of his times, leading a desultory, undistinguished existence, punctuated by his disastrous forays into real estate speculation. He formed an investment company, Plant, in 1988, relatively late in the bubble...
...Then there’s the matter of Davis-Mullen’s bar application, where the candidate was found to have sat for the bar exam without the necessary prerequisite of completing her studies in law school. Sharma said that Davis-Mullen’s alma mater, The New England School of Law, misinformed Davis-Mullen about her readiness to graduate...
...January, Desai talked to Harvard about a possible donation to the English department. "But it just didn't strike any of us as the right time," he says. So no chairs for his alma mater, although Desai may have taught college fund raisers a thing or two about irrational exuberance. "Next time the university is approached by an unknown donor," says Washington's Arkans, "this will make us a little more cautious...