Word: scholarships
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...Washington, and he got to visit the White House and meet President Kennedy. He came home starry-eyed and fixed on politics as his career. He enrolled at Georgetown University largely to be near the Congress he hoped one day to enter. Then came Oxford, on a Rhodes scholarship, and Yale Law School, where he met the brightest woman in the class, Hillary Rodham -- today a successful lawyer and a feminist who did not call herself Mrs. Clinton until her unwillingness to do so began to hurt her husband politically...
...They all gave me the same package, except Princeton," said Coote. As a New Jersey resident, the first-year student received a Kean Scholarship, which removed his summer work requirement...
Between 1940 and 1970, in the second great migration of the 20th century, some 5 million black Americans moved from the farms and hamlets of the South to the cities of the industrial North, and the massive relocation left the nation transformed. Documenting this population shift with scholarship and anecdote, the author makes a major contribution to the understanding of the relationship between public policy and urban poverty...
Between 1940 and 1970, in the second great migration of the 20th century, some 5 million black Americans moved from the farms and hamlets of the South to the cities of the industrial North, and the massive relocation left the nation transformed. Documenting this population shift with scholarship and anecdote, the author makes a major contribution to the understanding of the relationship between public policy and urban poverty...
...southwest Arkansas town of Hope (pop. 10,000). But Clinton was Hope's Doogie Howser, succeeding at everything he tried, the darling of his teachers and one of the first from the area to go to college. He got his bachelor's degree at Georgetown University, won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, then went on to Yale Law School, where he met his wife Hillary. By 1979, 32 years old and back in Arkansas, he was the youngest Governor in the country...