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Both men found their callings early. Clinton was elected a senator at Boys Nation at 16. On a Washington field trip that year, he shook hands with President Kennedy--an iconic moment captured in a photo. After Yale Law School and a Rhodes scholarship, Clinton, at 32, became Governor of Arkansas. The single-minded rise to political power is a timeless story, but Clinton's came with the distinctive trappings of his era: the scruffy beard and antiwar protests while at Oxford, the experimentation with pot, the civil rights movement sensibility and the feminist wife who kept her name...
...Wheel of Fortune for the PC. But last week, after I checked out Encarta Africana, a two-disc, multimedia reference work by Microsoft on the history and culture of Africa and people of African descent, I wanted to kiss the FedEx guy. This remarkable new work blends old-fashioned scholarship and storytelling with color videos and stereo sound to bring its subject alive, starting with a video lecture by poet Maya Angelou, who notes that "it takes more than a horrifying transatlantic voyage chained in the filthy hold of a slave ship to erase someone's culture...
...think she's a superb scholar and writer, awonderful thinker about literature and all of theissues facing literary scholarship, and I'm goingto miss her very much," said Professor of RomanceLanguages and Literatures Mary Gaylord...
Rice says she hopes to use her scholarship for construction training and then go on to study child psychology...
According to Bermudez, only a few of the roughly 50 students who begin Youth-Build each year end up earning the community service scholarship, and only about 50 percent earn their GEDs...