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...Saturday, the 23rd anniversary of his brother John's death, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass) paid a visit to Soldier's Field Park just in time to catch his alma mater's football victory. Wearing a navy blue overcoat and boots muddied from tailgating in the surrounding fields, Kennedy took a stadium seat after visiting the Arlington National Cemetery graves of his brothers, President John F. Kennedy '40 and Robert F. Kennedy...
...Common Pursuit depicts five mismatched undergraduates at Cambridge (the British playwright's alma mater) who become intimates while putting out a literary magazine. Most of the story is their post-Cambridge life: two remain in academe, two share a publishing house and a paramour (Judy Geeson), and the most buffoonish (Nathan Lane) achieves the biggest success as a celebrity journalist. Theirs is not a "group" of friends but a crisscross of relationships, some close, some almost hostile despite a depth of mutual insight. They judge each other not by material attainments but by how closely each has clung...
Thank heaven for Thomas E. Crooks '49, special assistant to the dean of the faculty, who puts propriety aside and speaks freely about Harvard's resident ghouls. Crooks says he has seen lots of ghosts since he returned to his alma mater as an administrator at the end of the Korean...
Since getting her master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1980, Patricia Lara, a citizen of Colombia and a reporter for her country's leading newspaper, El Tiempo, has returned often to the U.S. Last week she was headed for her alma mater to attend an awards dinner. Instead she landed in a New York City jail cell, where she was held for five days before being put on a plane and sent back to Bogota. Lara, 35, had been detained upon arrival at New York's Kennedy Airport by immigration officials who discovered that...
More than 100 Harvard Law School students have pledged not to give any money to their soon to be alma mater. That means not one penny ever--their rallying cry is an appropriately nihilistic N.O.P.E...