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...this bridge built in memory of a scholar and a soldier, connecting the college yard and playing fields of Harvard, be an ever-present reminder to students passing over it of loyalty to country and alma mater and a last suggestion that they should devote their manhood developed by study and play on the banks of this river to the nation and its needs...
With seven women showing up to chat about their alma mater in Dallas and eight in Ft. Lauderdale, Wilson's outreach effort was hardly a tour-de-force...
After Pravda came academe--the directorship first of his alma mater, the Institute of Oriental Studies, and then, in 1985, of the country's premier think tank, the Institute for World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO). Primakov took over IMEMO at the beginning of the Gorbachev era and quickly became a key part of the Gorbachev team. He played a major role in creating the ideology of perestroika, in particular questioning the communist dogmas that had traditionally determined foreign relations. But his predilection for the shadows and his stiffness in public meant that he received less credit than Gorbachev...
Alum opinion, which has varied widely since the beginning of Harvard Radcliffe negotiations, ranged from that of Pricilla Redfield-Roe '42, who said she hopes her alma mater will retain the name "Radcliffe College" for symbolic purposes, to Moon, who suggested an international focus to Radcliffe's projects...
...spent a few years in a bit of a fog, living abroad with his parents (his father now works in Saudi Arabia), attending a boarding school in Switzerland. Somehow, he chose to return to where he grew up, to enroll in his father's alma mater, the University of Wyoming, thinking of becoming a diplomat. Short and slight, he knew he fit a gay stereotype. And while open, he was cautious. But just days before he died, he told a friend that he finally felt safe...