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Retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., who graduated from the Law School in 1932, will return to his alma mater today to serve as the chief judge in the Law School's 77th Annual Final Argument, popularly known as the "moot court...

Author: By Jeremy L. Hirsh, | Title: Former Justice Powell Will Judge Law School Moot Court Contest | 11/17/1988 | See Source »

...which was then a graveyard of factories," he says. "I needed to understand why." After distinguishing himself as an economics student at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines in Paris, Allais worked for seven years in the French mine administration and in 1944 became a professor at his alma mater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Prizes: Tales Of Patience and Triumph | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

What do you call four Harvard grads trying to hustle the price of a movie by singing outside their alma mater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 10/28/1988 | See Source »

Sudduth, a one-time Harvard star now a computer programmer at his alma mater, was timed in 19 minutes, 2.82 seconds on a winding, wind-whipped three-mile course on the Charles River...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Sudduth Stars in Head of the Charles Regatta | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...mother returned to the U.S. and remarried. (Sontag uses her stepfather's last name.) In time, the new family ended up living in Canoga Park, near Los Angeles, though it would be truer to say that Sontag lived in books. The most ardent reader at North Hollywood High School, alma mater of Alan Ladd and Farley Granger, she graduated at 15 and made for the University of Chicago. (She would later do graduate work at Harvard and Oxford.) At 17 she married sociologist Philip Rieff, then a 28-year-old instructor, just ten days after she met him. The marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUSAN SONTAG: Stand Aside, Sisyphus | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

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