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Sydney Morning Herald
http://smh.com.au/
http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/01/1075570291754.html
Yale bones dug up in fight to be president
By Charles Laurence in New York
February 2, 2004
The "tomb" stands dark and hulking at the heart of the Yale University campus, almost windowless, and shuttered and padlocked in the thick snow of winter storms.
Built to mimic a Greco-Egyptian temple, it is the headquarters of the Order of the Skull and Bones - America's most elite and elusive secret society - and it has become the unlikely focus of this year's presidential election. Four leading contestants for the White House in November's election were 1960s undergraduates at Yale: President George Bush and Democrat rivals Howard Dean, John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman.
What is more, two are "Bonesmen". Senator Kerry, the Democratic frontrunner, and Mr Bush belong to the 172-year-old society, which aims to get its members into positions of power. This presidential election seems destined to become the first in history to pit one Skull and Bones member against another.
The phenomenon of the "Yalies", as Yale alumni are known, has provoked intense debate, since in a democracy of about 300 million people, the battle for power will be waged among candidates drawn from the 4000 who graduated from Yale in different years of the 1960s.
"To today's Yale undergraduates it seems quite extraordinary," said Jacob Leibenluft, a reporter on the Yale Daily News, the campus newspaper. "For some it's a source of pride, to others it's a source of shame."
The Skull and Bones is the most exclusive organisation on campus. Members have ranged from president William Taft to Henry Luce, the founder of the Time-Life magazine empire, to the first president George Bush.
The four candidates' time at Yale spans the period from 1960, when Senator Lieberman began his studies, through Senator Kerry's arrival in 1962 and Mr Bush's two years later, to 1971, when Dr Dean graduated.
They all studied history and political science and had some of the same professors and academic mentors.
While at Yale all four showed hints of the varying character traits that would eventually propel them towards the top of American politics.
. Politically ambitious, Senator Lieberman chaired the Yale Daily News, the most sought-after student position on campus. Senator Kerry is remembered as "running for president since freshman year". One of his contemporaries said: "He was obsessed by politics to the exclusion of all else. At that age, it's a bit creepy."
In laid-back contrast, Mr Bush achieved only a C grade academically, took little interest in politics and joined a "sports jock" fraternity.
The Telegraph, London
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