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...fact, Shattuck said, the relationship datesback some 25 years, to when the two were bothstudying in England. Shattuck, a Mellon Scholar atCambridge University, and Clinton, a RhodesScholar at Oxford University, had common friendsand worked together on Eugene McCarthy's campaignin...
...that subject the 53-year-old scholar of education has no shortage of opinions. He spends a lot of time thinking about such topical educational issues as the Edison Project, the experimental, for-profit school system for which Benno Schmidt abandoned the Yale presidency last year...
Muhammad quoted a Black scholar who supported the book's scholarship and then a "white person--Jewish, no less." And then: "Whether you know it or not, a Jewish person from New York who was asked to critique this book" endorsed...
...past. Earlier in the campaign, those phantoms popped up in the form of Gennifer Flowers, marijuana use and questions about the draft. Last week the poltergeists were back on center stage, as an increasingly desperate George Bush attacked Clinton for protesting the Vietnam War while a Rhodes scholar at Oxford in 1969 and for visiting Moscow in early 1970 during a school break. In terms that recalled the red-baiting tactics of the McCarthy era, Bush told CNN talk-show host Larry King that Clinton should "level with the American people on the draft, on whether he went to Moscow...
...days before the debate saw some of the most vicious attacks yet, as Bush questioned Clinton's patriotism while piously denying that he was doing so. The President wondered aloud why Clinton, who was then attending Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, went to Moscow in 1970 and whom he saw there. Clinton says he visited, for all of a week, "mostly as a tourist." The assault quickly backfired, and Bush stopped mentioning Moscow. On Sunday night, though, he persisted in attacking Clinton for helping organize demonstrations by Americans in London against the Vietnam War. Clinton, who had earlier quoted Bush...