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John T. McGreevy, Dunwalke associate professor of American History, is living Paul Simon's dream: He is homeward bound. The historian will return to his alma mater, Notre Dame, for a tenured position this fall...
Since then, she has returned to her alma mater to further her studies at the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement...
...presided over cases ranging from school desegregation to murder by extremist groups. He and his wife Elizabeth do not socialize much, and, apparently to avoid conflicts of interest, he often eats alone at law conventions. However, he is devoted to at least two things: his alma mater, the University of Michigan, and his hero, Atticus Finch, the small-town white lawyer assigned the unpopular task of defending a black man against rape charges in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Finch does so fervently but loses the case. Matsch describes Finch as "the opponent of oppression, the paradigm of propriety...
...going to Stanford. Courted by just about every top university in the country, the First Daughter has decided to head as far from Washington, D.C. as she can go, to join the Class of 2001 on the richly-endowed Palo Alto campus. Why not Georgetown, the President's alma mater, or Wellesley, Mrs. Clinton's? "I think she wanted to branch out and be her own person," the First Lady said. Thanks to her admirably protective parents, she?ll get that chance...
Roth has frequently celebrated his once predominantly Jewish alma mater as something like a yeshiva of assimilation. Swede, so called for his tall, blond, blue-eyed good looks, is built for a speedy launch into the American mainstream. His luck seems endless. He joins the Marines as World War II is ending; he returns from service to prepare to take over Newark Maid, his father's successful glove factory; and he marries the former Mary Dawn Dwyer, Miss New Jersey...