Word: alma
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...education. If we were lucky, we had teachers--Monroe Engel, Justin Kaplan, Gail Porter and Peter Stansky in my case--who shaped our sensibilities forever. But the Vietnam war also exposed the fallibility of America's institutions, and to witness close-up the crack-up of Harvard, the alma mater of the American establishment that created the quagmire, was a harrowing education in itself...
McNealy interspersed his delivery with reference to both his alma mater and his chief rival in the computer industry, William H. "Bill" Gates, the CEO and chair of Microsoft...
...this fantasy ticket grow dimmer. The retired general has no more reason to be thrilled by Dole's performance lately than anyone else. Since taking himself out of the running last November, he has enjoyed his relative obscurity and chafed whenever the spotlight threatened to return. And his wife Alma, who was thought to oppose his candidacy last fall, has turned out to be much more opposed to a political career at this juncture than many of Powell's associates realized at the time...
...those schools in the western part of the state that I had my eye on, but on the first day of our trip we ended up in Harvard Yard. My father, who is a Law School alum, said he wanted to come back to campus briefly to see his Alma Mater. Somehow, I was lured to the Yard for a visit before heading off to visit the colleges I actually wanted to attend...
...monarchy, he would run the family. Elizabeth, pursuing endless duty, was often absent for months at a time, and her children were brought up by nannies with strong wills and limited imaginations. Philip, worried about the sensitive Charles, sent him off for toughening to his own spartan alma mater, Gordonstoun. Bradford's pages on Charles' beatings and bullyings are hard to read. Both neglected and spoiled, none of the children could quite absorb their mother's sense of purpose into their own lives...