Reply #14: Christian Amanpour went to the URI and somehow ended up living

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in a house with a bunch of people and JFK when he was at Brown.

I may have this wrong, but I think she was just a regular, middle class kid, child of an immigrant, who ended up meeting someone who knew someone, which landed her in that house with JFK, and that led to a connection which your average middle class URI student might not have, which she then turned into a major career thanks to hard work and intelligence.