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President Clinton honored former Sen. William Fulbright as a passionate political fighter, tempered by reason, who "changed our country and our world forever and for the better." Clinton eulogized Fulbright at a Washington National Cathedral memorial service for the former Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, who died of a stroke at 89 last week. "In the work he did, the words he spoke and the life he lived, Bill Fulbright stood against the 20th century's most destructive forces and fought to advance its brightest hopes," said Clinton...
...there was a turning point in the public image of home schooling, it came in 1987, when Grant Colfax got into Harvard after having been taught by his parents his entire life. Grant graduated magna cum laude, became a Fulbright scholar and graduated from Harvard Medical School. One by one, his home- schooled brothers followed suit. "Our kids were more or less the guinea pigs," says Micki Colfax, who along with husband David home schooled all four Colfax children from their home in Boonville, California (pop. 750). "Their going to Harvard validated what home schooling was all about...
Three South African blacks who killed Amy Biehl, an American Fulbright Scholar, were given sentences of 18 years in prison, avoiding the death penalty. The judge said that the killers could be rehabilitated even though they haven't shown remorse for the brutal, racially-motivated slaying, which took place last August outside Cape Town...
Three blacks were convicted today in the racial murder of an American student last year after a long and divisive trial that garnered world-wide media attention. Amy Biehl, 26, a Fulbright scholar from Newport Beach, Calif. was in South Africa working on voter education and doing research on women's rights, when she was stabbed and bludgeoned to death in August by a mob near Cape Town. The conviction concludes a trial that dragged on for months because witnesses to the murder weren't forthcoming at first. But after they testified, "there was really no doubt in anybody...
Lucy Collins, a Fulbright Scholar from Ireland studying with the English Department said the discussions raised interesting and contemporary questions. "Some of them became so diverse and large it becomes difficult to tackle them here," she said...