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...character called Laura Cruise was sketched out but got the boot because "she sounded too American." When Lara Croft arrived, "we went over the top making her British." The fictional Lara is a graduate of Prince Charles' alma mater, despite the small obstacle that--as Smith points out--the school doesn't admit women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Behind Lara Croft | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

Wang said he had no political intentions in going to the event with Chen. Rather, he went out of respect for the alma mater of both of his parents...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre and Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Dissident Kept From Chinese Officials | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

Indeed, this weekend, the Harvard College Fund Assembly and the Harvard Alumni Association will host thousands of alumni in Cambridge for a series of committee meetings, faculty lectures, and fancy dinners to celebrate the very best in their alma mater--especially the $2.325 billion raised in the recent Capital Campaign. But even as this weekend's events symbolize Harvard's enormous wealth and power, a more disturbing relationship between wealth and poverty lurks beneath this seemingly pristine landscape of alumni satisfaction...

Author: By Timothy PATRICK Mccarthy, | Title: A Tale of Two Campaigns | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

Forgive my alma mater if the best it can do for a homecoming queen is a student in drag. Wabash, a small, liberal-arts college in Crawfordsville, Ind., is all male--one of only three such schools in the U.S. The student newspaper is called the Bachelor, and freshmen still shout the school song from the chapel steps each fall with more ferocity and face paint than the Scots wore in Braveheart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Company of Men | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

Microsoft CEO William H. Gates III, Class of 1977, and President Steven A. Ballmer '77 have been very generous to their alma mater and to the trade school down the river in recent years...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan and Erica B. Levy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard and MIT Face Off For Technology Funding | 10/19/1999 | See Source »

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