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Yale was the kind of school where ambition wasn't rare. These were the days when Bill Clinton was already plotting his political career. But the future Texas governor stayed out of the fray, concentrating on athletics and a social life--Texas-style pleasures--instead of grand plans for the future...
This was Yale in the days before co-education, when the school still enforced a coat-and-tie rule in its dining halls, and a structured extracurricular schedule...
Bush was also "a notorious slob," Walker says, although he bought his clothes at prep school clothiers J. Press and Brooks Brothers...
...Yale administration proved more conciliatory to the student protesters than their colleagues elsewhere. In Bush's senior year, the dress code was abolished and Yale moved to a pass-fail grading system. For the first time, public high school graduates outnumbered prep school graduates at Yale. And University Chaplain William Sloane Coffin publicly denounced the Vietnam War in debates with William F. Buckley...
...discussion, which was entitiled "Challenges to U.S. Policy on Atrocities: The International Criminal Court and War Crime Prosecutions," was sponsored by the law school's International Law Society...