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preoccupied with a post-college life that hasn’t worked out
as she planned.
For most of her life, Griffin
had succeeded at nearly everything, and she figured her career would prove no different.
As a high school student, she
won a merit scholarship that
covered her college tuition. Last
spring, she graduated from college summa cum laude and Phi
Beta Kappa. She had been the
news director of the campus
radio station, and she expected
to find a job in journalism, or
perhaps public relations. Then,
when she put in for an entrylevel job at a community radio
station, she learned that 200
others had applied — among
them, a former lecturer whose
class she had taken in college.
University budget cuts had
eliminated his position.
Without a job, she moved in
with her parents in the Raleigh
suburb of Cary — the sort of
Supporters
cheer on
Republican
presidential
candidate Ron
Paul during
a campaign
rally.