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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of the Republic of Liberia, has pledged to bring peace, justice and reform to her people. She accepted an honorary doctor of laws degree in a ceremony at Marquette. “I will remember that warm crowd today,” she said. “I could see people understood. Whether I was sharing agony or joy, I could see the connection, and I will remember it.”

To support her efforts Marquette is granting a four-year full-tuition scholarship beginning fall 2007 to a Liberian woman of the president’s choosing.