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...altered should Mzee Juu expire in London, where he spends three months of the year in a Chelsea flat with his 92-year-old housekeeper. He is a member of The Travellers, one of London's more exclusive clubs, and many of his friends are dons at Oxford, his alma mater...
...case of legacies, we grant that Harvard's private status gives it the right to bless its alumni with prestigous degrees for their children. But understand that Harvard remains loyal to its alums only because they reward their alma mater with financial gifts, or what the admissions statement euphemistically called "scholarship funds...
...tossed out hundreds more. Faculty members hostile to $ his vision were dismissed or strongly encouraged to leave. During his six-year tenure some 100 have departed, including a basketball coach who was hustled out by security guards for failing to stand at attention during the singing of the school alma mater. "I expurgated them through a vast variety of methods," says Clark, savoring his idiosyncratic polysyllables...
...took a leave from the firm of Dillon, Read & Co. to tour his family's ancestral homeland, Germany. Deeply disturbed by what he saw of Adolf Hitler's rule, he returned home -- but not to the world of high finance and private wealth. Instead, he went back to his alma mater, Harvard, to study history, sociology and philosophy: "There were big issues, big questions, big problems in the world. $ I wanted to come to terms with them. I couldn't do that making money...
...your net worth suddenly dropped 50 percent, you might be reluctant to give your alma mater a few million dollars this Christmas," said Cornell's Sanderson...