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...after his parents died when he was in elementary school. Although he lived in Windsor Hills, a middle-class section of L.A., he claims he began hanging with a rough crowd. He plays up these tough-guy roots to legitimize his hard raps, although a teacher at his alma mater, Crenshaw High, remembers Marrow as a milder sort whose most serious offenses were trying to get into basketball games without paying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fire Around The Ice: ICE-T | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

...words of our Alma Mater: "Radcliffe, nowwe rise to greet thee."Photo courtesy of the Radcliffe CollegeArchivesBig band music and floor-length formaldresses at an All-College Dance in the 1940s...

Author: By Jane NEWMYER Rice, | Title: THE LAST NORMAL CLASS | 6/2/1992 | See Source »

This weekend in Bethlehem, that type of pressure, no mater what Kleinfelder desires, will rise to a peak, akin to say, squatting naked at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Lax Heads to Promised Land: Final Four | 5/15/1992 | See Source »

...those with political dreams Harvard is a critical checkpoint, In this century, the College has been alma mater to several senators, numerous congressional representatives and two U.S. presidents...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: White House Bound? | 5/8/1992 | See Source »

...some respects, alma mater in Anno Domini 2000 will look pretty much the way she does now. "Madonna reinvents herself every season," is the dry observation of Sheldon Hackney, president of the University of Pennsylvania. "Universities are much more stable." Nonetheless, experts foresee quite a few changes -- good as well as bad -- for America's diverse complex of private and public institutions of higher learning. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campus of The Future | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

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