General Robert Kennedy and their staffs planned, schemed, pressured the state of Alabama to let two Afro-American students attend summer school at the University of Alabama.

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Only last summer, at an event hosted by Columbia University's School of Journalism, media luminaries ranging from Michael Bloomberg to Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. to Hearst III himself debated the importance and impact of new media.

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Once selected, they would attend an intensive summer school followed by on-the-job training alongside their final year of university.

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It is hoped those who participate will gain good enough A-level grades to get into the university as undergraduates but, crucially, they are also given extra credits if they complete the summer school courses.

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Slots for the E2B education-to-business program at Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University, for example, are full for the summer and 90% full for the fall.

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Bruni-Sarkozy spent the rest of the day touring The Julliard School and New York University, both colleges selected for the exchange program slated to beginning this summer.

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