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Since the U.S. Federal government has become increasingly independent minded, often openly acting directly at odds with the will of the people they are sworn to represent, American voters are becoming increasingly interested in finding out exactly who their government is taking orders from, since it clearly isn’t them. Conspiracy theorists from far left political ideologies to far right and all ideologies in between have developed numerous theories as to what international powers our government might be taking orders from and why. Among them, the Council on Foreign Relations (1), the Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission (2), the Bilderberg Group, Rhodes Scholars...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Washington University student Leana S. Wen's childhood asthma was so severe that part of her lung was removed. Her frequent hospitalizations led her to pursue a career in medicine while she was still a teenager. "I wanted to help the world," Wen said. Her work toward that goal helped her become one of the 32 men and women across the United States selected Sunday as Rhodes Scholars for 2007. The students will enter Oxford University in England next October. Wen, 23, was born in Shanghai, China, and her family sought political asylum in the United States...

BOSTON (AP) -- A student who was shot four times while promoting democracy in Iraq and a senior who is writing her thesis on vampires and blood contagion in 19th-century literature were among 32 Americans selected Sunday as Rhodes Scholars for 2006. The scholars, chosen from 903 applicants, will enter Oxford University in England next October. The scholarships fund two or three years of study. About 85 scholars from at least 14 nations are selected each year.One winner was Scott R. Erwin, a 2005 graduate of the University of Richmond, who founded Ambassadors of Democracy, a civic education initiative at...

The 32 American students chosen as Rhodes Scholars for 2005, listed by geographic districts:

* * * * NEWS RELEASE * * * * NEWS RELEASE * * * * NEWS RELEASE * * * * FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VIENNA, VIRGINIA/November 20, 2004 - Elliot F. Gerson, American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust, today announced the names of the thirty-two American men and women chosen as Rhodes Scholars. They will enter the University of Oxford in England in October 2005. The Scholars were chosen today from 904 applicants - who were endorsed by 341 colleges and universities. Rhodes Scholarships provide two or three years of study at Oxford. The Rhodes Scholarships, oldest of the...

<p>The Hague, Netherlands -- U.S. presidential politics can be played on any stage, and for the past two days it has unfolded behind closed doors in a courtroom in the Netherlands.</p> <p>As President Bush basked in the capture of Saddam Hussein, Gen. Wesley Clark, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, has had a strangely coincidental opportunity to point to his history with another man accused of war crimes: former President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia.</p>

Last Wednesday, Nelson Mandela once again showed his unique moral influence, two weeks before he celebrates his eighty-fifth birthday with a banquet in Johannesburg. In Westminster Hall, he launched the Mandela-Rhodes Foundation which will bring part of the huge fortune built on diamonds and gold back to black South Africa. He heard tributes from Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, with whom he had talked at length at Number 10 beforehand. The Prime Minister made an impromptu speech explaining how Mandela 'symbolised the triumph of hope over injustice'. Mandela warmly thanked him but did not conceal their differences about the Middle...

XFORD, England, July 4 — The scholars were in casual dress, not gowns and mortarboards, and seemed well-heeled, as people in their position might be presumed to be, as they gathered to mark the centennial of an institution that has endured with a prestige sometimes denied to its founder, the British imperialist Cecil John Rhodes.For much of this week, around 1,000 former Rhodes scholars — people, including former President Bill Clinton, who survived a rigorous selection process to win stipends from the diamond-laden Rhodes estate — have gathered and mingled in this old university town and in London to celebrate...

A top aide to ex-President Bill Clinton is warning British Prime Minister Tony Blair that his close association with President Bush could hurt him politically. "The U.S. is about to enter a very contentious political phase as our presidential campaign hots up," warned trusted Clinton advisor Sidney Blumenthal, in quotes reported by London's left-wing Mirror newspaper in its Thursday edition. "Bush intends to exploit 9/11 and that is going to be used against him," Blumenthal said he told the British leader in a private meeting. "It is going to become intense to the extent that any foreign leader who...

Bill Clinton, the world's best-known Rhodes Scholar, will join Nelson Mandela and Tony Blair in London this week to celebrate 100 years of the scholarships and the establishment of a new foundation backed by the former South African president. The three men will speak at a ceremony on Wednesday in Westminster Hall to mark the centenary of the Rhodes Trust and the start of the new Mandela Rhodes Foundation, which will use £10m of the trust's money to fund scholarships and other development programmes in Africa. Up to 93 scholarships are awarded each year for students from the US, British...

Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton joined Tony Blair at Westminster last night to praise 100 years of Rhodes scholars and announce a new foundation to fund development programmes in Africa. The former South African President told an audience of 1,800 dignatories and former scholars in Westminster Hall that the new Mandela Rhodes Foundation would "contribute to a better life for the people of South Africa and the African continent". He praised the work of the Rhodes Trust, set up with a bequest from Cecil Rhodes, the founder of Rhodesia, and announced the appointment of Shaun Johnson, a leading South African...

WASHINGTON- Thirty-two American college students have been selected as Rhodes Scholars, the scholarship trust announced Sunday. Eight regional committees selected the winners from 981 applicants who were endorsed by 341 colleges and universities throughout the nation. Rhodes Scholarships, created in 1902 by the will of British philanthropist Cecil Rhodes, provide two or three years of study at Oxford University in England. Winners are selected on the basis of high academic achievement, integrity, leadership potential and physical vigor, among other attributes. One of the winners is Chesa Boudin, a senior at Yale University who is majoring in history. He is the...