Edwards' New Job Ensures Visibility ; College Post Hit As Partisan Plum

The Washington Times › March 21, 2005

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Former Sen. John Edwards, seeking to retain his public visibility as he considers another run for president in 2008, has found an academic platform that critics say was created solely to boost his political ambitions.

The one-term North Carolina lawmaker who became Sen. John Kerry's vice presidential running mate in 2004 after his unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination, left office in January and is now largely out of the national political spotlight. But the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill stepped in to fill that void by setting up the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity that he will direct when he isn't speaking around the country for Democratic causes.

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Edwards' New Job Ensures Visibility ; College Post Hit As Partisan Plum

The post, created by the university just for Mr. Edwards, is being criticized by Republican officials and others in the...

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