Where Bush and Kerry Got Started
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George Walker Bush and John Forbes Kerry: The two men competing against each other in the cross-country sprint to the White House represent opposing political parties and hail from different corners of the country. But they’ve both shared their sexual histories with near-strangers in the vicinity of an open coffin and fondled the skull of Gerinomo at one of Yale’s secret societies. In hopes of building on this common ground, I drove to New Haven, Conn., to interview contemporary Yale students about the first all-Yale election in our nation’s history.
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