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...virtues, the foremost of which, recently, is the diversity of its students and graduates. The College, they croon, produces poets and priests, musicians and physicians, athletes and artists. But nowhere is this resplendent diversity so evident as in the difference between two of its most prominent and successful alma libres, Al Gore '69 and Alan L. Keyes...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: The Lost Art of Harvard Oratory | 2/9/2000 | See Source »

...This is Al Gore's alma mater," Porter says. "If [the] Bush [campaign] were to win a mock debate, that would be a big deal...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Zealot | 2/2/2000 | See Source »

Barksdale, 56, and his wife Sally gave $100 million to their alma mater, the University of Mississippi, to promote reading in the state that ranks last in literacy (a third of its adults can't read a sports story or a map). The couple's donation will provide every child from kindergarten through Grade 3 with the sort of help with reading that got Barksdale launched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Philanthropy | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

...AWCHA national championship banner along with co-captain Claudia Asano '99 in the season opener. Team USA is currently missing several defensemen, who are taking their high school exams, and Mleczko is filling in at the blueline, so Harvard's career points leader was unable to score against her alma mater...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Team U.S.A. Handles W. Hockey in Exhibition | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...character called Laura Cruise was sketched out but got the boot because "she sounded too American." When Lara Croft arrived, "we went over the top making her British." The fictional Lara is a graduate of Prince Charles' alma mater, despite the small obstacle that--as Smith points out--the school doesn't admit women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Behind Lara Croft | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

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