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For High School Students, Some Justice; Supreme Court's Roberts Pays a Visit to Walt Whitman

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20080306
Author:Robert Barnes - Washington Post Staff Writer

One of the perks of being a student in the Washington region is that the subjects you study are always at hand. The White House is a Metro ride away, the neighbor down the street might be a leader in Congress, battlegrounds and historical sites and ancient documents of democracy abound.

Or, as government classes at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda found out yesterday, if you're studying the Supreme Court, maybe the chief justice of the United States will stop by.

John G. Roberts Jr. spent about an hour yesterday answering questions from government teacher Robert Mathis and a series of ...

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