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Shklar has lectured at a number of universitiesaround the world, including Oxford, Cambridge,Hebrew University, and the Van Leer Institute...
...political calculations are dangerous. This election is between a savvy Democrat, nurtured by a small town and given an overlay of Oxford and Yale, and a duty-driven Republican reared in the nation's richest suburb and now in possession of the most majestic and mighty political office in the world. Given the country's suspicions of bigness and power, planted long ago by Reagan's friend Thomas Jefferson, it is not at all an uneven contest...
...contributing to philosophical and cultural publications, he coedits, with Gates, Transition, a journal "which looks at the world from within the African diaspora." This summer, he completed a manuscript of a book of proverbs from Asanti, the kingdom in which he grew up. And he is currently editing The Oxford Book of African Literature...
...famously, applied to the University of Arkansas Law School ROTC as part of his casting about to avoid the Vietnam War. He had intended to go to Fayetteville because the local law school is a great place for forming political connections -- and everyone, by the time he was at Oxford, knew Clinton was permanently running for office. "We would kid him about it, but no one found it offensive," says Peter Hayes, now a historian at Northwestern University...
...around the university for a candidate to run against Hammerschmidt -- he wanted a Democrat who planned to live permanently in the district. But when no one else would do it, he announced his own candidacy. As a young law professor with '60s-style hair, a Yale and Oxford background and liberal cohorts from the university on his team, he should have been an easy loser in this enclave of the state's few Republicans. But he ran surprisingly well, thanks to Watergate, giving Hammerschmidt the one scare in his long, safe tenure of the office...