Word: browne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With those leanings in the back of his head, Brown says he was so moved by a speech given by then-Harvard President Derek C. Bok that he delayed his junior year in Cambridge to spend a year working for U.S. Representative Leon Panetta (D-Calif.) on Capitol Hill...
...says he found his calling while working on legislation to study the prospects of a national public service program. Trading ideas and hopes with Khazei--who was still in Cambridge--every night by phone, Brown says it was during that year that he came to understand the power of service to "focus and mature...
...really appreciate the opportunity to study full-time when you take time off," Brown says...
Once back at Harvard, Brown says he and Khazei began to pursue the idea of a national service program with more vigor. They began meeting weekly with a professor at the Kennedy School of Government, who would go on to serve as mentor for many years...
...Although Brown says the College's liberal arts setting allowed the two roommates to "dream big things," it was not until arriving at Harvard Law School (HLS) that he found the theoretical basis for the plans they had been pondering...