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...spoke to President Summers several months ago, while I was making my decision, and he agreed that it was a fitting tribute to my alma mater.” Gates told The Crimson...
...with similar extremist views controlled your student government. As a student at Montreal’s Concordia University, this is the situation I have faced for the past two years. In fact, CNN’s “Capital Gang” could have used events at my alma mater for one of their “outrages of the week” every week for the past three years. A particularly glaring scandal took place in December when the Concordia Student Union (CSU) banned the Jewish student association Hillel without due process...
...money that helps buy such mercy. Alumni open their wallets when the alma mater fields a champion. And the TV networks, which pay billions for college sports (CBS is paying $6 billion over 11 years to broadcast NCAA basketball) can make winners flush. The fact that Harrick won a national title at UCLA may have meant more to Georgia than his T&E arithmetic...
Tonis threw aside his allegiance to his old alma mater, and issued a four-state alert for the missing drum and the white van in which the drum-nappers escaped...
...fact that Egypt is a republic rather than a monarchy. Still, Gamal's swift rise up the ranks of the ruling National Democratic Party is heralding change. Educated at the American University in Cairo, he is a businessman rather than a military man. During a town meeting at his alma mater this week, he frankly acknowledged that "much still needs to be done" in reforming Egyptian politics...