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...basketball player who lives an unreal life as an athletic icon, North Carolina remains much more to Michael Jordan than just his home state or alma mater. In Chicago he is unable to attend his local Methodist church because of the commotion his presence creates. "But in Carolina I feel at ease. My real friends keep me straight -- they don't praise me or ask favors." With characteristic modesty, he adds, "I would probably be unreasonable without my friends and family to keep me in balance...
Such sentiments come easily to Cavazos, a cattle foreman's son who grew up on the King Ranch in south Texas and went on to earn a Ph.D. in physiology. Before being named president of Texas Tech University, his alma mater, in 1980, he spent five years as dean of the school of medicine at Tufts University. In both posts Cavazos gained a reputation for relaxed geniality -- and a backbone of steel. "If he gets pushed too far, watch out," says Michael Collins, assistant dean for government and medical affairs at Tufts Medical School. His tenacity was abundantly clear...
Retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., who graduated from the Law School in 1932, will return to his alma mater today to serve as the chief judge in the Law School's 77th Annual Final Argument, popularly known as the "moot court...
...which was then a graveyard of factories," he says. "I needed to understand why." After distinguishing himself as an economics student at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines in Paris, Allais worked for seven years in the French mine administration and in 1944 became a professor at his alma mater...
What do you call four Harvard grads trying to hustle the price of a movie by singing outside their alma mater...