Word: maters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...provide a cohesive body of traditional knowledge as a Core program. Yale, for example, has no core curriculum and relatively unstructured distribution requirements. But Yale is building a reputation as a center for Western Civilization study. In 1991, Yale graduate Lee M. Boss pledged $20 million to his alma mater, stating that "the study of Western Civilization is essential to developing students' understanding of the ideas that have shaped America...
Ring said she was happy to return to her alma mater to teach. "I enjoyed law school, am familiar with some of its faculty members and resources and the quality is really very impressive," she said...
Paul Siemens '98 of Chestnut Ridge, N.Y., sued his alms mater, Spring Valley High School, for using a ranking system that left him out of the valedictory spot. Siemens' lawyer compared the school's ranking system, which double-counts the first semester of senior year, to the injustices suffered by Black slaves and disenfranchised women...
Could it happen to you? Possibly. Does it happen to someone? Most definitely. Does it mater if it could not happen to you? you bet it does. Falling in love sometimes feels like winning the lottery, and Harvard students often feel like they have the same odds for having either of these wonderful things happen to them. But the point here is not the statistical probability of either situation. "It Could Happen to You" does not call on your logical, rational mind to calculate probabilities, it asks you to imagine the possibilities...
...draft a letter of complaint to the Late Show -- the first such formal protest. bane president Shahjahan Mahmood recalls how a graduation party for the son of a friend was consumed by talk of Mujibur and Sirajul. Nancy Hossain, wife of Mukit (and a graduate of Letterman's alma mater, Ball State), has also noticed the pair's increasing prominence in Bangladeshi dinner chat: At one gathering "someone said, 'Hey, maybe these simple men really are the face of Bangladesh.' He was shouted down...