"People are getting revenge, and they are just getting started," said Quatiarra Bonaparte, a 14-year-old schoolmate of some of those involved.
This was for Jimmie Trimble, a schoolmate at St Albans: a baseball player to his bookish self, Sparta to his Athens, and in every way that "other half" of which Aristophanes spoke in Plato's "Symposium".
Microsoft, the software giant he co-founded in 1975 with his schoolmate Bill Gates, enjoyed years of dominance with its proprietary Windows operating systems.
Providing context is the broader tale of the historic rowing competition between two prestigious universities.The first boat race took place in 1829 on the River Thames at Henley in Oxfordshire and was the culmination of an idea of Charles Merivale, a Cambridge student, and his Harrow schoolmate Charles Wordsworth (nephew of poet William), at Oxford.
His closest friend and schoolmate at the abbey was Louis Capet, a boy his age.
He formed an alliance with schoolmate and deejay Jeffrey Townes, whom he met in 1981.
Mustafa Kemal's former schoolmate Ali Fethi was named ambassador, and Mustafa Kemal accompanied him to Sofia as military attaché.
In 1739 he embarked with his Eton schoolmate, the poet Thomas Gray (later to write "An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard"), on a grand tour of France and Italy, in the midst of which they quarrelled and separated.
Feng was a neighbour and schoolmate of Hong Xiuquan, the religious mystic who became the supreme Taiping leader.
Steinitz learned to play chess from a schoolmate when he was about 12 years old.
But he certainly knew of his rising fame after the appearance of Les Poètes maudits, for in 1885 he received a letter from an old schoolmate, Paul Bourde, who told him of the vogue of his poems among avant-garde poets.
