November 16, 2007

Obama, Once a Leader at Harvard Law, Is Now a Favorite of Academe

By SARA HEBEL

One of the early tests of Barack Obama's political skills came when he was a law student at Harvard University in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Gaining the support of both progressive and conservative editors, Mr. Obama was selected as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. He had decided to seek the post believing that he might help ease ideological tensions at the journal even as the campus was embroiled in divisive doctrinal and political debates over issues like

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