Mr. Martelly, a dropout of the national military academy, visited one group in November in a camp near here as a presidential candidate and was greeted with a ceremony of salutes and parading, said Nestor Appolon, the commander of the group.
Milstein was a member of the first delegation of senior Soviet intelligence officers — all still serving in the armed forces or the K.G.B. (Milstein, at age 80, lectured at a training academy) — to visit Israel.
Describing that experience, Shapiro, an alumnus of both NYU and the Peace Corps in India, notes, "I was there for at least a week and did a considerable amount of outreach with other art organizations in the city -- lectures, discussions at the art academy, studio visits, any number of banquets.
Parents have enrolled their children at private Confucian academies; I visited a weekend school where children aged three to thirteen were learning the classics by rote, reciting each passage six hundred times.
It has suffered savage terrorist attacks on a police academy and the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team.
What of the expenses (Liddington claimed £14,075 in 2009-10, according to the accounts) that attracted press comment last year, with allegations that he and other directors used "chauffeur-driven … limousines" to visit academies?
"The owner really wants us to learn and challenge ourselves, so I've been fortunate to visit academies in all corners of the world," Wilson said.
Diana Lam, the deputy schools chancellor for teaching and learning, said that only third graders would visit Tweed Academy this spring, as the program gets off the ground.
The two sailors visit the academy chapel and museum.
"I travel regularly to China to visit art academies, which is really exciting," she said.
AT ONE point on his travels Captain Lemuel Gulliver visits an academy filled with mad scientists.
