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Updated: Sunday, November 22, 2009 11:46 a.m.

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Present professor, past president

Contributing Reporter
Published Friday, October 24, 2008

Although Aarthy Thamodaran ’09 was well aware that her “Debating Globalization” professor was the former president of Mexico, it took both Bill Clinton and Jon Stewart for the notion to hit home.

Sitting in his seminar with 19 others this fall, Thamodaran said she remembered Ernesto Zedillo GRD ’81 discussing the 50-billion dollar loan that his administration received from the United States during the 1990s. But his prominence as a former statesman struck her later, outside the classroom, when she heard Bill Clinton allude to this loan on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. After...

#1 By (Anonymous) 12:53a.m. on October 27, 2008

why does a Spanish accent MAR his voice?!

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