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...addition to his well-stuffed Rolodex, McAllister brings to his job considerable expertise. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale (where he specialized in American diplomatic history), he went to Manila as a Luce scholar and to London as a Marshall scholar, earning a Ph.D. in history and writing the memoirs of U. Alexis Johnson, a former Under Secretary of State. He returned to Yale for a law degree, clerked for a federal judge in San Francisco and worked as a corporate lawyer in New York City -- but kept being drawn back to journalism, reporting...
...down political activism: build it, publicize it, and they will come. However, many people in their 20s feel distanced from such artificial, removed-from-life solutions. "I know everything in the White House connects to what I'm doing, but it seems so far away," says John Jackson, a summa cum laude graduate of Howard University, who has been unable to find a summer job, even as a cashier. Others express a sense of generational siege. "The AARP ((American Association of Retired Persons)) has the power to mortgage our future," says Joe Ross Edelheit, 21, a former field coordinator...
...seems that Sharp never spent much time in reverie. A summa cum laude graduate and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, she says that in college she definitely did more studying than reflecting...
Booms graduated summa cum laude in biological anthropology last spring, was also graduated Phi Beta Kappa...
...Part's "Summa" concluded the first half of the concert. An essential part of the Kronos experience is the mood lighting, and the mottled shadows that materialized on stage here vaguely suggested ivy or stained glass. Either suited perfectly the medieval character of "Summa," a piece that never departs from the G natural minor scale in something like 10 minutes of homophonic wanderings. This is music as meditation, appreciable by anyone who can, like Part, find it to be "enough when a single note is beautifully played...