Word: maters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With seven women showing up to chat about their alma mater in Dallas and eight in Ft. Lauderdale, Wilson's outreach effort was hardly a tour-de-force...
After Pravda came academe--the directorship first of his alma mater, the Institute of Oriental Studies, and then, in 1985, of the country's premier think tank, the Institute for World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO). Primakov took over IMEMO at the beginning of the Gorbachev era and quickly became a key part of the Gorbachev team. He played a major role in creating the ideology of perestroika, in particular questioning the communist dogmas that had traditionally determined foreign relations. But his predilection for the shadows and his stiffness in public meant that he received less credit than Gorbachev...
Alum opinion, which has varied widely since the beginning of Harvard Radcliffe negotiations, ranged from that of Pricilla Redfield-Roe '42, who said she hopes her alma mater will retain the name "Radcliffe College" for symbolic purposes, to Moon, who suggested an international focus to Radcliffe's projects...
...spent a few years in a bit of a fog, living abroad with his parents (his father now works in Saudi Arabia), attending a boarding school in Switzerland. Somehow, he chose to return to where he grew up, to enroll in his father's alma mater, the University of Wyoming, thinking of becoming a diplomat. Short and slight, he knew he fit a gay stereotype. And while open, he was cautious. But just days before he died, he told a friend that he finally felt safe...
...Cowboy State, a campus where real men were supposed to love football and all-night parties. Shepard, barely 5-ft. 2-in. tall and on a good day 105 lbs., preferred political debate and languages (German and Arabic) to the stereotypical masculine pursuits of his father's alma mater. Shepard said his jaw was recently broken by a man in a Cody, Wyo., bar who decked him when he realized he was gay. There are no gay bars in Wyoming. The closest gay nightclubs to Shepard's college are a 1 1/2-hr. drive away and across the Colorado border. Still...