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...things could stop Les Franklin. Born into poverty, he was offered an athletic scholarship, got a business degree and became a key executive for IBM in Boulder, Colo. He bought a dream home in a mostly white, gated community, worked for the Governor and even ran for Congress. In 1990 tragedy struck, when his 16-year-old son Shaka shot himself to death. But Franklin did not let grief paralyze him. He founded the Shaka Franklin Foundation for Youth, dedicated to the prevention of youth suicide. Through it, Franklin, 61, became an even more prominent presence in Colorado. His fund...
Until he arrived in Washington, Cheney's only substantial foray East was his four semesters at Yale. He entered on a scholarship, but flunked out--as he once explained it, he goofed off at Yale. Before long he returned to school at the University of Wyoming to pick up bachelor's and master's degrees in political science. Though he moved on to one of the most radicalized campuses of the late 1960s, the University of Wisconsin, he took no part in the campus protests against the Vietnam War. Like George W., who came to a tumultuous Yale two years...
...People who are familiar with [Ceder's] scholarship say that she is a superb teacher and has earned a strong reputation," he said. "She is interested in both the teaching and administrative ends of this work...
...Right, but that was a different job I was doing. When I was at the endowment, my main interest was in preserving the integrity of scholarship. When I was there, we were at the apogee of the time when people were rejecting the notion that scholarship should be objective or balanced. That seemed to me to present lots and lots of problems to a government agency funding scholarship. Because once you reject the notion that scholarship shouldn't be objective or strive for balance, then what you are funding are things that have a viewpoint. And what's the government...
According to Queen, the selected professors "are highly respected for their scholarship and their teaching...