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In search for expertise, Harvard looms large

''There is a broad and deep Harvard connection and I think it will serve him well,'' said Charles J. Ogletree (right), a specialist on racial justice who mentored Obama when he arrived in Cambridge and who continues to dole out personal and policy advice. ''There is a broad and deep Harvard connection and I think it will serve him well,'' said Charles J. Ogletree (right), a specialist on racial justice who mentored Obama when he arrived in Cambridge and who continues to dole out personal and policy advice. (courtesy charles j. ogletree)
By Bryan Bender
Globe Staff / November 7, 2008

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CAMBRIDGE - When Barack Obama sought advice before a critical Senate vote on the terrorist surveillance program earlier this year, he called his friend and former colleague Cass Sunstein, a constitutional law professor at Harvard Law School. (Full article: 1393 words)

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