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...times like these, I yearn for a princely fortune in order not to bequeath it to my alma mater. Sanford Gifford...
...leading a very strong Providence team and looking to thrash her alma mater...
...course, the dean of Thomas' alma mater does not set a shining example for the nominee, or his fellow alums in the Senate. Judging from his remarks, the dean of Yale Law School sounds just as ignorant about the law of sexual harassment as Thomas. Is Anita Hill the only one of the bunch who learned the law at Yale...
Last year, Ghaith R. Pharaon, a 1965 Harvard Business School alumnus, gave his graduate alma mater as much as $1 million on the occasion of his 25th reunion. He has already paid an initial installment of $100,000, according to alumni sources...
...published first in Yiddish in The Jewish Daily Forward and later in translation. Saul Bellow brought him wide recognition by rendering the poignant anecdote Gimpel the Fool in English. But royalties were slow to arrive, and for many years Singer lived modestly on the earnings of his second wife Alma, a buyer at Saks Fifth Avenue. Until late in life he kept his name in the Manhattan phone book, and at lunch hour he could be found munching a vegetarian meal at his favorite West Side cafeteria. When he was asked, "Do you abstain from meat for your health?" Singer...