Word: maters
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...Chinese government would temper its remarks, the public opinion might subside, and then we could get past this sticking point."Your Papers, PleaseDiplomatic niceties between the nations have been far between since Washington infuriated Beijing last June by allowing the Taiwanese president to visit his American alma mater. For one, China recalled its U.S. ambassador and stopped speaking to his American counterpart. Wednesday, however, former Tennessee Senator Jim Sasser presented his credentials to President Jiang Zemin in a brief ceremony marking his posting to the Chinese capital. Like President Clinton, Sasser is expected to stress to least controversial issue...
...Chinese government would temper its remarks, the public opinion might subside, and then we could get past this sticking point."Your Papers, PleaseDiplomatic niceties between the nations have been far between since Washington infuriated Beijing last June by allowing the Taiwanese president to visit his American alma mater. For one, China recalled its U.S. ambassador and stopped speaking to his American counterpart. Wednesday, however, former Tennessee Senator Jim Sasser presented his credentials to President Jiang Zemin in a brief ceremony marking his posting to the Chinese capital. Like President Clinton, Sasser is expected to stress to least controversial issue...
...Justices when he harked back to a certain law school that refused to admit women, claiming they would run in tears from the lecture hall, unable to cope with the harsh Socratic method, the legal version of hazing. Five of the Justices recognized the school as their alma mater, Harvard Law School. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the first women to get there, seemed to hold back a smile. VMI and the Citadel might want to start building those women's bathrooms...
...post-1948. But since then, the LDP has regained its influence, and politics has returned to form. Now there is a chance for a real election between two parties with distinct candidates. "This is very good for Japan," says Yasuhiko Torii, president of Tokyo's Keio University, the alma mater of Ozawa and Hashimoto. "Politics is very different. Ozawa and Hashimoto will have to really debate...
...there are those who argue that, out of a sense of brotherhood, Harvard should memorialize the deaths in battle of all those who call her alma mater. The day we adopt this policy, however, is the day history loses all meaning for us. At its core, a memorial is a powerful, dramatic way of telling a story. It should extract a moral from history, one that assigns meaning the past. If Harvard memorializes those who fought for both sides during the Civil War, what possible moral or meaning can this watershed event retain...