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Patrick’s personal story attests to his inspiring leadership potential. Born to a struggling single mother in one of Chicago??s most impoverished neighborhoods, Patrick overcame tremendously unfavorable odds to earn a scholarship to Milton Academy and a place at Harvard College and Harvard Law. In both the private and public sectors, he has fought to give other disadvantaged youths the opportunity to mirror his own rise to success...
...April of last year, my father found himself at the center of a grizzly scandal at the University of Illinois at Chicago??s department of pharmacology. The controversy stemmed from a cheating incident that took place at an exam administered in his Pharmacology 331 course—a boy had apparently prepared a crib sheet and had been caught peeking at it during the test. Soon after, my father met with him in his office, listened to his weepy apologies, and examined his cheat sheet. It quickly became clear that the piece of paper could not have helped...
...Patrick’s personal story is a testament to his dynamic personal character. Born in one of Chicago??s roughest neighborhoods, he went on to graduate from both Harvard College and Harvard Law School. It’s no surprise, then, that Patrick is passionately committed to providing today’s disadvantaged youth with the same opportunities that allowed him to move from Chicago??s South Side to the boardrooms of the Justice Department and Coca-Cola...
...CHICAGO??By the time I finish working this summer, I will have spent almost 12,000 minutes traveling to and from my job. When I tell people that I commute an hour and a half each way, every day, I get a variety of responses. The most common is outright horror. “Oh my God,” they say, “Why would you do that to yourself?” which is a bit disconcerting, since it would seem more appropriate if I had just declared that I was going to spend...
Perhaps, then, it is not surprising that the Kennedy School’s Stephen M. Walt and the University of Chicago??s John J. Mearsheimer have become synonymous with one phrase—“The Israel Lobby”—a phrase that has come to symbolize their allegation that U.S. foreign policy reflects Israeli interests more than it does American ones...