While they have both just celebrated 800 years of scholarly study, the key attribute Oxford and Cambridge universities share is a fierce pride - and a powerful urge to put one over on their rival.
My son is a captain in the Delaware Army National Guard and he recently spent a year in Iraq, so my husband and I know well the mixture of pride and concern that all military families share.
Those who live on the altiplano are likely to view Mr Morales, the country's first indigenous president, with pride and to think that his government offers them a chance to get their share of revenues from the gasfields around Santa Cruz.