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Article: From Macalester to U.N. to Nobel Prize; Secretary-General Kofi Annan's potential as a leader was recognized early on.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- December 9, 2001
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Byline: Donna Halvorsen; Staff Writer
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Kofi Annan came to Macalester College when the 1960s were dawning and all things seemed possible. His native Ghana had won its independence. The U.S. civil rights movement was taking root. Soon John F. Kennedy would take up the torch for a new generation.
Ghana quickly joined the United Nations. Macalester had flown the U.N. flag on its St. Paul campus for nearly a decade when Annan arrived in 1959. No one could know then how fully the young man from Africa would embrace the internationalism that the flag and Macalester represented.
Annan, 63, became U.N. secretary-general in 1997 ...