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...deep. Rory, a student in his fourth year (students' last names are being withheld at the school's request), still regrets answering honestly on a transatlantic flight when his seatmate asked where he went to school. "For six hours he kept making snide remarks," he says. Douglas Hurd, Margaret Thatcher's Foreign Secretary, wrote in his memoir that his family believed "that if I had not gone to Eton I would have become Prime Minister in 1990." (That was the year that the Conservative Party opted instead for John Major, who attended Rutlish Grammar School in south London...
Every summer Kacyvenski returns to Endicott to work out at his old high school. He had casually met Sanjin with a gaggle of other U-E players in the weight room, but had only talked with them briefly. Kacyvenski heard Tunovic’s story from Hurd and saw a little of himself in the young man. The call was easy to make...
...Harvard showed little interest through the recruiting process while Brown and Cornell called. Seeking to get Harvard involved, Hurd decided to appeal for a little help...
...just called him,” Hurd says now, “and I said ‘Isaiah, I don’t want to bother you, but I’ve got a kid—I think he’s an Ivy League player. Would you mind hooking me up with a contact...
...He’s a constant reminder of what you can accomplish,” Hurd says of Kacyvenski, “no matter what your background, no matter what your upbringing, no matter what type of adversity you had to deal with in your life, it’s not going to be compared to what this kid went through...