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...diverse array of mourners attended the service, including family, students, faculty, doctors, Harvard police officers, and graduates of Horace Mann High School in New York City, Palmer-Sherman's alma mater. The crowd filled the dining hall to capacity...
...plenty of time to think about it, of course. But a few suggestions have already popped up. If he can't be president of the United States, perhaps he'd enjoy taking the helm of his alma mater instead? Gore is one of 500 nominees who will be considered for the top job at Harvard University, although most suspect he will not make the final cut. "He'll go into our pool and be considered seriously," Robert G. Stone of the Harvard Corporation told the Associated Press. But, Stone continued - and here's the tough part, Al - "Gore doesn...
Despite Rich's apparent discontent with the past, her work lauds the power of both history and words; words that merited a resounding standing ovation from the crowd gathered in Cambridge's Congregational Church. With such a warm embrace from her alma mater, Rich reiterated that Radcliffe has not, in fact, melted into Harvard, but stands as its own "mysterious" structure. In the poet's eyes, the Radcliffe Institute occupies a critical stance towards Harvard, serving as critique of modern elite universities and a "thorn in the flesh of institutional self-congratulation." The reading itself was another brick...
Indeed, the all-Yale ticket bears a number of resemblances to its alma mater. Cheney's company has maintained separate bathrooms for foreign employees; Yale has maintained a separate admissions program for foreign students. Texas Gov. George W. Bush is hesitant to put lives at risk in military interventions in far-off lands; Yale students are hesitant to put their lives at risk in brief excursions through the streets of New Haven. Both candidates have emphasized the need for better cleanup of toxic brownfields; New Haven happens to be a toxic brownfield...
...college recruiters came knocking on Balestracci's door very early on in his high school days. Ultimately, though, the choice came down to Brown--his father's alma mater--and Harvard...