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Newest Horatio Alger Has Nation by the Tail
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19950913
Author:Carl Rowan
This is Colin Powell week. It is the beginning of the greatest chapter of an incredible saga of a poor, black son of Jamaican immigrants who grew up in the South Bronx under circumstances of predictable failure.
It is an inspiring story of a black kid whose grade-school teacher wanted to put him in a low-level "learning track" because she thought he was "a little slow" - but a young man who went on to excel in ROTC and combat in Vietnam, but most of all intellectually in every challenge the Army and the nation put before him.
Yes, this is Colin Powell's week. This man who served as ...
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