Michigan senator-elect\u2019s former peers recall his time at university in Britain \u2013 and his love of coronation chicken sandwiches<\/p>\n
In the cold, twilight days of 2008, inside the University of Michigan\u2019s fortress-like Fleming administration building, one student was given a particularly adulatory sendoff.<\/p>\n
Mary Sue Coleman, president of the university at the time, convened a ceremony for the latest Rhodes scholar heading to the University of Oxford: Abdul El-Sayed. \u201cThere is no doubt among anyone who crosses his path that he will achieve all he sets out to accomplish and more,\u201d she declared to a room full of the university\u2019s leaders, calling the medical PhD student the \u201cepitome of the engaged intellect\u201d.<\/p>\n
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