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...While the Obama of today is a highly polished, and at times guarded, politician, colleagues noted that the qualities that would help him rise to presidential candidacy were already apparent during less scrutinized days on the Law Review...
...There were certainly students at Harvard who were not taking advantage of everything it had to offer, but that was not Barack,” said Trent H. Norris, who worked with Obama on the Harvard Law Review. “He never treated it as an entitlement...
...Despite its absence from his public pronouncements, the Law School represented Obama’s first glimpse of the national limelight. As the first black president of the Law Review, Obama was heralded by the national press—an experience some colleagues say may have helped lay the groundwork for his later career...
...newspaper that came near me, and I saw an article about this black dude—this all turned out to be completely wrong factually—born in the ghettos of Chicago, raised in the slums, who got to Harvard Law School, became president of the Harvard Law Review, and was coming to Chicago to join a silk-stocking law firm...
...Another thing he got out of Harvard were mentors and friends who have continued to help him and support him,” said Chun, the former Law Review colleague who now serves as an Obama fundraiser and surrogate. “In subsequent years, I think that a number of his campaign supporters and fundraisers have been professors and classmates of his, across the nation and across the globe...