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Forget the 18 Prime Ministers, Wellingtons, Pitts and Walpoles: any school that is the ostensible alma mater of James Bond, Tarzan and Lord Peter Wimsey has clearly made a contribution to the world. And the quirkiness of Eton College ensures that it still seems to belong less to life than to Lewis Carroll fiction. The boys wear coats with tails, the teachers are called beaks, and both parties greet one another on the street by simply raising a single index finger. The prefects who sweep into classrooms, gowns billowing, to summon boys to see the headmaster are known as praepostors...
...enough to rehabilitate devastated nations, as Aquino has found out. In a land of political victims, she came to power as the most famous victim of Philippine dictator Marcos, who is popularly assumed to have ordered the murder of her husband. Many saw her as a veritable mater dolorosa. As devout a Roman Catholic as Chamorro, Aquino was irreproachable at the beginning of her presidency. The fearsome insurgency, led by the communist New People's Army, lost steam in the face of her saintliness. The military plotters who threatened to overthrow her were seen as thugs...
Most interventionists cheered Luce's appeal. But even some of them were disturbed by the missionary's son's missionary zeal. The Nation called Luce's program magnanimous but also smug and self-righteous. The Literary Magazine at his alma mater, Yale, called it "jingoistic jargon." Luce's favorite theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr, later wrote that the very title implied an "egoistic corruption...
...think that he would be susceptible to a callfrom his old Alma Mater," he said. "It wascertainly worth...
...Alumni Affairs and Development Fred L. Glimp '50. It's no accident that the administrator who deals with alumni is the same one who's in charge of development (a higher-education code word for fundraising). For, as Harvard graduates soon learn, their financial obligation to their alma mater doesn't end as soon as they've paid off the last penny of interest on that $80,000. They are expected to keep the cash flowing for the rest of their long and (by the grace of God and a Harvard diploma) prosperous lives...