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Michigan senator-elect’s former peers recall his time at university in Britain – and his love of coronation chicken sandwichesIn 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 anyone who crosses his path that he will achieve all he sets out to accomplish and more,” she declared to a room full of the university’s leaders, calling the medical PhD student the “epitome of the engaged intellect”. Continue reading...

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