Jones, a former student radical at Weill's alma mater, Cornell University, had met Weill while serving as a trustee of New York Hospital, where Weill is the chairman of the board.

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Mr. Anwar, by contrast, was born to a hospital porter in northern Malaysia and made his name as an Islamist student radical, shocking his colleagues when he joined the National Front.

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Mr Hayden is a thoroughbred ideologue: a one-time student radical who tried to change the world with his former wife, Jane Fonda, before settling down to change California as a state senator.

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Radical student groups still provide one alternative for those disillusioned with the official reform parties but, says Mahmud, the atmosphere on campus is not what it used to be.

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The religious right is divided over its relationship with mainstream politics, reliving, in a peculiar quirk of cultural history, the divisions that tore apart the radical student movement in the late 1960s.

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Reich was admitted to the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association in 1920, while he was still a graduate student, and already a radical idea was percolating in his head: that sexuality, fundamental to our being, and yet a source of shame for centuries, had the power to heal much of what ailed us, if only we would let it.

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His formal education was at an English private school and Oxford, and he became a radical while working as a student among London's poor, picking hops in Kent.

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