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USA Today reports: When he was a student, Princeton coach Bob Surace wrote a thesis paper on baseball great Jackie Robinson breaking down racial barriers through the sports world. He wrote about the courage and strength Robinson exuded on the quest for equality. On Tuesday, Surace got to be a part of a story he believes to offer the same …

Ilves was born in Sweden to Estonian refugees and was raised in New Jersey. He’s a graduate of Columbia and has a master’s degree from Penn. Dare we call him the first Ivy League president of a former Soviet republic?