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Abdul El-Sayed’s Oxford years: PhD, political awakening and sporting distinction
Michigan senator-elect’s former peers recall his time at university in Britain – and his love of coronation chicken sandwiches In the cold, twilight days of 2008, inside the University of Michigan’s fortress-like Fleming Administration Building, one student was given a particularly adulatory send-off. Mary Sue Coleman, president of the university at the time, convened a ceremony for the latest Rhodes scholar heading off to the University of Oxford: Abdul El-Sayed. “There is no doubt among anyon…
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