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...education. If we were lucky, we had teachers--Monroe Engel, Justin Kaplan, Gail Porter and Peter Stansky in my case--who shaped our sensibilities forever. But the Vietnam war also exposed the fallibility of America's institutions, and to witness close-up the crack-up of Harvard, the alma mater of the American establishment that created the quagmire, was a harrowing education in itself...
McNealy interspersed his delivery with reference to both his alma mater and his chief rival in the computer industry, William H. "Bill" Gates, the CEO and chair of Microsoft...
...Spectrum Singers perform Mozart's Coronation Mass and Schubert's Stabat Mater and Magnificat at the First Congregational Church, 11 Garden...
...schools in the western part of the state that I had my eye on, but on the first day of our trip we ended up in Harvard Yard. My father, who is a Law School alum, said he wanted to come back to campus briefly to see his Alma Mater. Somehow, I was lured to the Yard for a visit before heading off to visit the colleges I actually wanted to attend...
...monarchy, he would run the family. Elizabeth, pursuing endless duty, was often absent for months at a time, and her children were brought up by nannies with strong wills and limited imaginations. Philip, worried about the sensitive Charles, sent him off for toughening to his own spartan alma mater, Gordonstoun. Bradford's pages on Charles' beatings and bullyings are hard to read. Both neglected and spoiled, none of the children could quite absorb their mother's sense of purpose into their own lives...