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...tears did not last. Ashe, the pragmatist, wiped them away and set out to teach the ignorant lessons about ourselves. He set up an AIDS foundation. He became active in AIDS research at Harvard and at his alma mater, the University of California, Los Angeles. He spoke to scores of gatherings on the nature of his disease, on race relations, on the lessons of life lived in the shadow of mortality. Along the way, he hugged his wife Jeanne and daughter Camera. The hugs and dignified discourse ended prematurely last week as Ashe, 49, succumbed to the disease...
...composer and pianist Frederic Rzewski '58 returned to his alma mater Sunday evening for a solo recital in Paine Hall. Rzewski performed three piano pieces he has written in the last two years, demonstrating both a rich creative arsenal and uncompromising keyboard virtuosity...
...summoned late last year to Little Rock, initially to be vetted for the post of White House counsel, that she struck a fast rapport with the President-elect. "Clinton likes people who he likes," explains a presidential aide. Baird also boasted an impressive connection to the Clintons' alma mater, Yale Law School: her husband is a constitutional scholar on the school's faculty...
...virtuoso, 40, made this live recording during a triumphant return visit to Russia, which he had left in 1987. The time was October 1991, and the place was the recital hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Feltsman's alma mater. "It was a very, very emotional experience for me," says the former refusenik, who for eight years was persecuted by the Communist regime for seeking to emigrate. "And I think that it was a good night. I played really as well as I could...
...process. It's worse than that. When you live in the South, college football is a religion. My father took me to my first football game when I was six, and then several others in the years after that. I think I learned to root for his alma mater, the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), just after I learned to talk...