News your connection to The Boston Globe  Born to privilege,
searching for a purpose   In the winter of 1974, Howard Brush
Dean III departed his family's Park Avenue home and boarded a
subway for a gritty stretch of the Bronx. Three years out of
college, Dean was seeking purpose, after a year skiing in Aspen
and two halfhearted years trying to follow his father's
footsteps on Wall Street. At 26, he had a trust fund but few
accomplishments.  Dean was on his way to Albert Einstein College
of Medicine, an institution founded by Jews who had been kept
out of other schools.  Dean had never come against such limits:
His acceptance into an elite prep school and Yale University had
been a family rite; the applications were more a formality than
a test. But from his college days when he shared a dorm room
with two African-American roommates, he'd pushed against the
confines of his exclusive upbringing, embracing the roommates in
his world of privilege.  Now, it was Dean seeking entry to an
institution created for peop