Final Countdown

В книге "What happened" Хиллари Клинтон пишет, почему она поступила в Йель вместо Гарварда.

When my friend and I went to take the law school admissions test in 1968, we were among the only women in the room. We were waiting for the test to start when a group of young men started harassing us. "You don't need to be here." "Why don't you go home and get married?" One said, "If you take my spot at law school, I'll get drafted, and I'll go to Vietnam, and I'll die." It was intense and personal. I just kept my eyes down, hoping the proctor would come to start the test, trying hard not to let them rattle me.
There was a professor at Harvard Law School who looked at me—a bright and eager college senior, recently offered admission—and said, "We don't need any more women at Harvard." That's part of why I went to Yale.



Выступая перед выпускниками Йеля в мае 2018 Клинтон говорила:

I believe healing our country is going to take what I call radical empathy. As hard as it is, this is a moment to reach across divides of race, class and politics, to try to see the world through the eyes of people very different from ourselves and to return to rational debate, to find a way to disagree without being disagreeable, to try to recapture a sense of community and common humanity. When we think about politics and judge our leaders we can't just ask, am I better off than I was two years or four years ago? We have to ask, are we all better off? Are we as a country better, stronger and fairer?
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Выступление запомнилось шуткой про русскую шапку: "Now, I see looking out at you that you are following the tradition of over-the-top hats, so I brought a hat, too [applause] a Russian hat. [applause] Right? [applause] I mean if you can't beat them, join them."

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