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This year's crop of American Rhodes Scholars was named recently. Among the 32 winners are four from the U.S. Naval Academy and three each from the University of Chicago, Yale and Duke.

Harvard College, surprisingly, had none, marking only the second time that's happened in 75 years. Recent Rhodes classes have had as many as eight representatives from Harvard.

In all, 85 students from around the world won the Rhodes. They'll study at Oxford University and join the ranks of former Scholars such as bill clinton, Bill Bradley, Kris Kristofferson, Robert Reich and George Stephanopoulos.

Then they'll spend the rest of their lives trying to weave that tidbit into every conversation.

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