Word: buttner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think of me as some Horatio Alger or an example of the American dream. It's not a matter of my rising above the society from which I came. It's just a matter of my taking a different route, but that doesn't make me any better," Buttner says...
Only recently has Buttner abandoned her fears of attracting unwanted sympathy with her success story...
...Besides, Buttner emphatically denies that she is more successful than the majority of the students at Harvard. "The Rhodes Scholarship is very prestigious and well known, but that doesn't mean I'm more accomplished. Many people have spent just as much time as I did as president of the IRC by feeding the poor in Cambridge or organizing panel experts to speak on Latin America...
...Buttner's modesty has not gone unnoticed...
...Buttner has managed to overcome enormous obstacles and achieve the heights of collegiate success--while still maintaining a likeable personality. How does...