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Three months ago, Yangdon moved to America to be reunited with her husband, a human-rights lawyer who received his law degree from Harvard Law School last spring under the Fulbright Scholarship...
Congratulations are in order, but there is also concern. Yes, the president's mother is smiling down in approval of the choice of a female secretary of state, glad that her son who had learned about foreign policy as an aide to Senator William J. Fulbright has his own foreign policy protege in Madeline Albright. But there is always the possibility that she will be judged differently, by the dreaded double standard. Will her foreign policy successes be written off as having been accomplished by a woman pretending to be "One of the guys?" Conversely, will her failures be blamed...
...also had two foreign graduate students, a German Fulbright scholar studying international law at New York University and an Italian woman at the Columbia School of Journalism...
During this discussion, which increased in pitch until the fervent isolationists were advocating recalling Madeleine Albright, the German Fulbright scholar sat watching us, his eyes getting wider and wider...
...returned from West Point bemused. Unable to reach a consensus on the proper role of the U.N. in world affairs, our group had left the issue out of our final policy paper. The German Fulbright scholar, whom I sat next to on the train back to New York City en route to Cambridge, told me the conference had confirmed all his ugly stereotypes about Americans...