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Clinton has established a reputation as a"robo-candidate," weathering scrutiny of hismarital fidelity, draft record and financialethics--not to mention the marijuana he "didn'tinhale" while a student at Oxford...
...brink of a decision to abandon the ROTC shield from the draft: "I am about resolved to go to England come hell or high water and take my chances." He is not referring to the risk of being run over by a double-deck bus on the Oxford High Street...
After withdrawing his name from the University of Arkansas, Clinton applied to Yale Law School. In the spring of 1970, the Rhodes administrators circulated a questionnaire to determine which scholars were planning to return for a third year at Oxford. Clinton's answer: "Perhaps. If not, will be entering Yale Law School, or getting drafted...
...class of Britons, brought up without an elite schooling or the right accent. Britain has had leaders of humble origins before, but next week's election is a milestone. For the first time, none of the chief standard-bearers are products of those ancient mills of correct breeding, Oxford and Cambridge. Of the Cinderellas awaiting the nation's hand, moreover, none looks likelier to dance all night than a newcomer accustomed to combat boots...
...Joseph Stalin, the two most powerful personifications of evil in this century, are still impossible to explain fully. They shouldered their way into politics as resentful, hate-filled egoists, but so did thousands of their contemporaries. To anyone scrutinizing the young Hitler or Stalin, writes Alan Bullock, the Oxford University historian, "a suggestion that he would play a major role in twentieth-century history would have appeared incredible." At 30, Hitler was a street-corner speechmaker in Munich, and Stalin was in prison for plotting an oil workers' strike in Baku...