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Indeed, the all-Yale ticket bears a number of resemblances to its alma mater. Cheney's company has maintained separate bathrooms for foreign employees; Yale has maintained a separate admissions program for foreign students. Texas Gov. George W. Bush is hesitant to put lives at risk in military interventions in far-off lands; Yale students are hesitant to put their lives at risk in brief excursions through the streets of New Haven. Both candidates have emphasized the need for better cleanup of toxic brownfields; New Haven happens to be a toxic brownfield...
...college recruiters came knocking on Balestracci's door very early on in his high school days. Ultimately, though, the choice came down to Brown--his father's alma mater--and Harvard...
...their advantages and privileges in ways that they have never before been forced to consider? Or that the penniless, who have never before confronted such gratuitous displays of wealth, suddenly have black-tie formals, Final Club punch seasons and Freshman Facebook statistics--including irrelevant home addresses and high school alma maters--thrown in their faces...
Acting Dean of the Radcliffe Institute Mary Maples Dunn welcomed Rich back to her alma mater and thanked her for letting the Radcliffe Institute be "custodians of her future" by entrusting her manuscripts to the Schlesinger Library...
With a wry grin, Rich said that it was "great to be back" at her alma mater, speaking in the hall where she attended her first-year Radcliffe Convocation...