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Like most first-year students living in the Yard during the spring of 1979, Birmingham didn't exactly lead the take-over of University Hall...
...also like most of his peers, Birmingham says that the events that year and throughout his career at Harvard permanently altered his political sensibilities...
...Birmingham says that his Harvard experience was also shaped by his classes in the interdisciplinary Social Studies program, where he enjoyed tutors such as William J. Bennett, the conservative moralist who would later become Education Secretary and head of the Drug Enforcement Administration...
...Birmingham's Harvard experience did not launch him into graduate school or a rigid career track, but by winning the Rhodes Scholarship in the fall of 1971, he did not have to focus on such future plans...
Recounting his days in England, Birmingham places less emphasis upon his course work in English literature than on the experience as a whole, which ultimately helped him make several important decisions...