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...Obama, who spoke second, received a more enthusiastic welcome from an audience at Columbia that included volunteers, nonprofit workers and students. He admitted to having a "home-court advantage" at his alma mater. (McCain's daughter Meghan graduated from the university in 2007.) McCain drew the biggest laugh of the night when explaining volunteerism among senior citizens: "People are living longer," he said, "and they're more active and vigorous. And I'm here to tell you that's a fact" - just before pretending to doze off. And the audience applauded loudly when Obama said he wanted to "make government...
...person, he seems angry on his uncle's behalf. In his view, his uncle is being edited out of history, and Smith and Carlos haven't done enough to stop it. In 2005, a statue of the scene on the Mexico City dais was erected at the Americans' alma mater, San José State University, California - without Norman's figure on the second-place dais, which someone had decided would be a good place to deliver speeches and pose for photos. "If [Smith or Carlos] had said, 'Hang on a second, you're missing Peter,' it wouldn't have happened...
...originally vacated by former New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat who returned to her home state to run for the U.S. Senate. Former Representative Jim Leach, a moderate Republican from Iowa, served as interim director for the past year before returning to an academic position at his alma mater, Princeton...
Phillips, a classics concentrator from Cabot House, returned to his alma mater to present his unpublished poem, “Night...
Thirty years after graduating from Harvard Business School, Ann S. Moore, the chairman and CEO of Time, Inc., will return to her alma mater on Wednesday afternoon to deliver the Class Day speech to graduating students. Moore, described as one of the “Most Powerful Women” in American business by Fortune Magazine, will follow a chain of CEO’s who have spoken at the Business School’s ceremony, including Kenneth I. Chenault of American Express, Jeffrey R. Immelt of General Electric, A.G. Lafley of Proctor & Gamble. A 1978 graduate of the Business...