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...basketball player who lives an unreal life as an athletic icon, North Carolina remains much more to Michael Jordan than just his home state or alma mater. In Chicago he is unable to attend his local Methodist church because of the commotion his presence creates. "But in Carolina I feel at ease. My real friends keep me straight -- they don't praise me or ask favors." With characteristic modesty, he adds, "I would probably be unreasonable without my friends and family to keep me in balance...
...when we were children, our feelings about intelligence are based on competitive values. Just as our economic system tends to categorize people's worth in terms of their titles or salaries, our attitudes about education tend to evaluate people's intelligence in terms of their alma maters and their grade point averages. We still have a lot to learn...
Such sentiments come easily to Cavazos, a cattle foreman's son who grew up on the King Ranch in south Texas and went on to earn a Ph.D. in physiology. Before being named president of Texas Tech University, his alma mater, in 1980, he spent five years as dean of the school of medicine at Tufts University. In both posts Cavazos gained a reputation for relaxed geniality -- and a backbone of steel. "If he gets pushed too far, watch out," says Michael Collins, assistant dean for government and medical affairs at Tufts Medical School. His tenacity was abundantly clear...
...December 1986, Kazakh youths rampaged through Alma Ata to protest the appointment of an ethnic Russian as party first secretary of Kazakhstan. In July 1987, Crimean Tatars demanded the right to return to their homeland on the Black Sea, from which they were removed in 1944. Last February, Armenians and Azerbaijanis began to clash over control of Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian enclave south of the Caucasus. And last week in the Estonian capital of Tallinn, the local supreme soviet turned down constitutional amendments proposed by Moscow and voiced new demands for sovereignty. Two days later, the Lithuanian supreme soviet...
...Harvard students have to agonize about. But today's crowd at Harvard Stadium will be sprinkled with fans whose allegiances won't be that simple. For them, cheering for their team will also mean rebelling against their parents, breaking with their siblings, and sometimes even rooting against their own alma maters...