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...speak to this with some experience of serving on university corporations,” said Gergen, who currently serves on Duke University’s Board of Trustees and previously sat on the Yale Corporation. “I just don’t see a serious conflict here...
...This story was up against pieces from kids at places like Duke and Kentucky, two schools with fantastically active college sports cultures,” he said. “If people, especially students, think that there aren’t interesting and compelling sports stories and figures right here in the Ivy League, they’re sadly mistaken...
...newsstand sales everywhere. The whole world was gripped by the 1936 abdication of Edward VIII after he decided to marry the American divorcé Wallis Simpson. However, the last known blackmail case involving a member of the royal family was successfully hushed up for many years. In 1891, the Duke of Clarence, son to King Edward VII, paid £ 200 to secure indiscreet letters he had sent to a prostitute. The case came to light only five years ago when a letter to his lawyer was sold at auction...
...likely played at least some part in his defeat. Despite a college-era conversion from Hinduism to Catholicism and his close alignment with the passionately pro-life wing of the GOP, Jindal could not convince rural voters in the state's north, who had voted for white supremacist David Duke less than two decades earlier, to give him their support. Not easily dissuaded, Jindal ran for and won the congressional seat vacated by Senator David Vitter one year later. He was elected freshman-class president, and within a month of taking office, he masterminded a photo...
...conservative - who converted from Hinduism to Catholicism as a teenager - has traveled often to northern Louisiana, hitting up churches and pressing the flesh. The strategy appears to have worked, as Jindal handily won the areas he lost to Blanco four years ago and that heavily supported white supremacist David Duke's bid for the governorship in 1991. Perhaps realizing the difficulties of running to lead a state that has by and large elected white males to higher office, Jindal worked to minimize the significance of his ethnicity on the trail, using variations on the theme of, "the only colors that...