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The portrait of John Kerry in his Yale days is clear and
unambiguous: He was a young man "driven to excel" and his close
friends were already speculating that he was going to be
president someday. At the same time, however, he was a mystery
to some of those friends. Here are the observations of author
and historian Douglas Brinkley, Yale roommates Harvey Bundy and
Danny Barbiero, and New Yorker writer Philip Gourevitch. These
excerpts are drawn from their FRONTLINE interviews.  photo of
bundy  harvey bundy A roommate at Yale who also served in
Vietnam.  …What kind of guy was he?  John was, and is, an
extremely focused person. John does everything 110 percent. I
mean, whether it's relaxation, or whether it's his political
life, or whether it's work, or whether it's athletics. I mean,
John is always 110 percent into it. You could almost say he is
over-programmed. He tries to do so much.  Duri