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Clinton has the intelligence to conduct an effective foreign policy, and he did not come to the presidency unfamiliar with the wider world. He studied at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and later at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, and was once on the staff of J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is a quick study, and when he does focus -- as when preparing to meet foreign leaders, for which he crams like a student facing a tough exam -- can be quite impressive. But he rarely does focus that way. He gets...
...look for the best scholar we can find," the department chair says...
Come, come. Surely you remember Pete Dawkins, Army's triple threat in 1959? How about Pete Dawkins, the Rhodes scholar; or Pete Dawkins, Captain of the Cadet Corps...
...distinct pleasure for me to be able to make his appointment," Rudenstine said. "Not only because Professor Wilson embodies Harvard's highest tradition of a scholar and teacher, but because he is, in addition, a person whose personal qualities...are also so remarkable...
...murder of Frug, a feminist legal scholar who was a pioneer of the controversial Critical Legal Studies movement, capped a wave of violent crime the set all of Harvard on edge in the spring...