Word: columbia
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Madeleine was never a lighthearted American kid. In eighth grade she won a United Nations contest for being able to name all the U.N. member states of that time. As a scholarship student at Wellesley and later a graduate student at Columbia, Albright was distinguished by her ability to rise early and work late, study hard and make friends easily. At first she thought she might like to go into journalism, and she got herself a summer job working in the morgue at the Denver Post. There she met a guy named Joe--Joseph Patterson Albright, grandson of the founder...
They married three days after Madeleine graduated from Wellesley. She studied Russian while her twin daughters were still in the hospital incubators, then had another daughter six years later. She earned her master's and eventually her Ph.D. at Columbia by getting up at 4:30 and squeezing in the studying whenever she could. She got her first political job soon after earning her doctorate, serving as Maine Senator Edmund Muskie's chief legislative aide. Her Columbia adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski brought her into the White House as congressional liaison when he served as Carter's National Security Adviser...
...worth of counterfeit bills a week, but not even these seen-it-all G-persons had ever eyed any money as funny as the $20 bills that turned up last summer in local bars and restaurants. Agents traced the bills to a print shop in the basement of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and last month arrested four suspects, including three Columbia dropouts (ahem, they were not journalism students). According to the agents, the suspects taped real 20s to sheets of paper and fed them into a high-quality color copier. Authorities said the men, one of whom...
...COLUMBIA CREW A real space jam--faulty hatch keeps them indoors, and weather delays their return...
Among Ivy League schools, Columbia was fourth, Brown fifth and Dartmouth 21st. Duke University ranked first, and the U.S. Military Academy was last