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Published: 01/19/11

The Peace Corps' Most Famous Alumni

By  Torie Bosch - AOL News
The Peace Corps' Most Famous Alumni

The Peace Corps is mourning the loss of Sargent Shriver, the organization's first director and a member of the Kennedy family by marriage. The list of past Peace Corps volunteers includes some now-prominent individuals, several of whom point to their work with the organization as a formative experience in their lives. Surge Desk recalls some of the most famous Peace Corps alumni. Chris Matthews The host of MSNBC's "Hardball With Chris Matthews" volunteered in Swaziland from 1968 to 1970. Chris Dodd The politician, who ran for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, ...

Published: 05/12/10

Is Kagan Gay? It's All the Talk, and That's a Shame

By  Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics Daily
Is Kagan Gay? It's All the Talk, and That's a Shame

Let's face it. To the world at large, being gay is a terrible thing to be. People whisper the word, gossip about it, trade in innuendos about it, as if being gay were a crime. That brings us to Elena Kagan. Here she is: a brilliant, accomplished, fabulously successful lawyer and professor, dean of the Ivies, academic par excellence, and a good-time gal, a former smoker who plays poker and can swing a bat. She's a New Yorker, a child of the Upper West Side of Manhattan, dutiful daughter of dutiful liberal parents, and soon-to-be Supreme Court justice. Who could ask for anything more? Well, ...

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