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“This is so nostalgic,” Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 declared upon entering the Yale Child Study Center on Monday morning. Clinton’s reminiscence was not unexpected — Monday’s roundtable discussion with women at the Child Study Center did, after all, mark the first time she has come to Yale since announcing her campaign for president last January. But it also amounted to Yale’s first appearance on the 2008 presidential race stage — a stark contrast to past contests that have featured, as in 2004, three Eli frontrunners and dueling members of Skull and Bones. The senator, whose pit stop...

Democratic presidential candidate US Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) reacts as "Elvis the Black Elvis" Dwayne Turner performs for her at the Kitchen Express Restaurant in Little Rock, Arkansas January 30, 2008 Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., recognizes a supporter from her Arkansas days as Arkansas first lady Ginger Beebe, right, looks on at a rally in North Little Rock, Ark., Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008. Former president Bill Clinton motions to members of the crowd as he works the rope line after campaigning for his wife, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008, in...