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24th October 2012

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Armed with U.S. education, many leaders take on world - Washington Times →

A surprising number of politicians, diplomats, lawmakers, military leaders and business tycoons from around the globe — in countries both friendly and hostile — have spent time in U.S. colleges and universities, a source of “soft power” that has boosted the country’s interests in often surprising ways.

You might hear about some fearsome enemy leader or a foreign ally on the news and then think, “Wait, didn’t I sit next to that guy in class?”

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