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...calling Liberia’s leaders “many idiots,” has been charged with treason by despot Charles Taylor, and has attained the distinction of being Africa’s first elected female head of state. Coming full circle, she returned to her alma mater last night and declared, “I’m pleased to be back.” Sirleaf is president of a country still recovering from the horrors of two catastrophic civil conflicts during which “the economy and state collapsed,” she said...
...percentage of Harvard College alumni who donated to their alma mater declined last year to reach a 17-year low, according to figures released by the University. The rate at which alumni give back to their school, known as the “participation rate,” is sometimes viewed as a barometer of alumni confidence in an institution. Harvard’s rate fell slightly to 39 percent during fiscal year 2006—only a single percentage point lower than the previous year’s rate, but the College’s lowest since 1989. Fundraising...
...team’s offensive strategy for the contest against No. 5 Duke (5-0-1, 1-0-1 ACC) this weekend. The challenge for the resurgent offense will be more than the usual non-conference warm-ups when Kerr and his team run up against his alma mater and former coach, John Rennie, on Saturday at Ohiri Field. The Blue Devils have established themselves as a national-title contender in the early part of the season with two strong showings against ranked teams, earning a tie versus No. 15 Virginia Tech and a 4-3 win over...
...Including, now, a Hollywood-style film set. Last decade one of Albany's famous sons, novelist Tim Winton, created a young surf rat not too dissimilar to Wade, and the children's TV series based on him, Lockie Leonard, has been shooting at the author's alma mater, Albany Senior High School. While the cost of lugging cast and crew more than 400 km south of Perth for the 21-week shoot undoubtedly cut into the $A7.5 million budget, the decision was a natural one for producer Kylie du Fresne. "Everything Tim writes about in the book is here...
...Other times the problem isn't how he says things, but what he says. Biden is known for his occasionally bizarre questioning of witnesses at hearings, most notably the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito last winter. Biden riffed about his dislike of Princeton, Alito's alma mater, one day, then donned a Princeton cap the next day and said he was okay with the school. More recently, on a trip to New Hampshire last month, he noted "you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent," while attempting...