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HARVARD GETS TO CHEER for many famous alumni in the public eye. Paul E. Wylie '91, who won the silver medal in men's figure skating last week, is one of them. Presidents, authors, musicians, philosophers, doctors and lawyers abound. But students don't often get to cheer our alma mater to the gold--or close to the gold...
Dodging a barrage of crowd-pleasing insults to her alma mater Yale University, actor Jodie Foster accepted a gold "Pudding Pot" during the Hasty Pudding Theatrical's Woman of the Year celebration yesterday...
Despite being "persecuted" at Harvard, Kerrigan had positive things to say about her alma mater, lauding President Neil. L. Rudenstine's open letter which followed Peninsula's issue on homosexuality last fall...
...signed by the Soviet Union and advance human rights and market economies. Governments around the world quickly began announcing their recognition of the 12 new states, even as they wondered what kind of future their Commonwealth, established on only the barest sketch of a treaty signed last month in Alma- Ata, capital of Kazakhstan, will be able to build for itself. The Commonwealth members, with Russia and Ukraine in the lead, are already wrangling over how to divide up the massive Soviet armies, navies and air forces and the central government property. There is increasing resentment of Russia's decision...
They are not expecting any dramatic improvements either when the red hammer- and-sickle flag is lowered over the Kremlin, giving way to Russia's white- blue- and-red banner, and Gorbachev finally steps down as Soviet President. Both might happen momentarily. Meeting Saturday in the Kazakh capital of Alma- Ata, presidents of 11 former Soviet republics -- only Georgia was absent -- signed documents formally creating a Commonwealth of Independent States to succeed the U.S.S.R. and settled some of the last details. For example, they agreed to form a military council to exercise unified control of the armed services...