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...Clinton Administration today officially acknowledged that it will grant the president of Taiwan a visa allowing the Cornell University alumnus to appear at his alma mater. President Lee Teng-hui, who has been invited to address an alumni reunion at Cornell's Ithaca, N.Y. campus, in June, would be the first leader of Taiwan to visit the U.S. since 1979, when Washington recognized Beijing as the sole government of China. (China regards Taiwan, the seat of the Nationalist Chinese who fled the communist takeover of the Chinese mainland in 1949, as a renegade province.) The State Department has been loath...
...project "focuses on minority students in urban city high schools," she said. After running a pilot program in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Coleman is now introducing ACCESS to her alma mater, J.F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx...
When Harvard students engage in their favorite pastime of Yale bashing, they never lack ammunition. And while the Elis make valiant but futile attempts to defend their alma mater, one thing even they acknowledge is that Harvard is safer than its younger, poorer sister...
...vague popular idea that the Panthers were an outcropping of the Black Muslims, "Panther" portrays the Oakland Muslims as an indolent group of pretentious pseudo-Africans who have trouble accepting that they're not in Africa. Soon the women of the Black Muslims, led by the independent Alma (Nefertiti) tire of being asked to "bring more libations" to these self-important neo-old-worlders and join the Panthers...
This weekend Jack Lemmon '47 returns to his alma mater; and Harvard has prepared the fatted calf for him. As part of the third annual Arts First festivities, Lemmon will receive the first Harvard Arts Medal, an award meant for "a distinguished Harvard or Radcliffe graduate or faculty member who has made an outstanding contribution to the arts." Lemmon will also be the subject of a tribute at the Harvard Film Archive, which will show four of Lemmon's representative films...