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July 1, 2008

Scholar-athletes walk for peace -- sans Gen. Powell

PROVIDENCE -- Scholar-athletes by the busload have descended on downtown Providence to join together in a walk for peace.

But a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is not walking with them.

Organizers of the U.S. Scholar-Athlete Games, now under way at the University of Rhode Island, had hoped that Gen. Colin Powell would be able to lead the walk.

But Powell has just landed in Rhode Island, and instead will go directly to the Providence Performing Arts Center, where he will give the keynote address for the games.

Students on board twenty-two school buses are now walking along the Providence River waterfront, all wearing Scholar-Athlete Games T-shirts and some carrying signs and banners.

Powell will speak at 7 p.m. and later take questions from the audience. Tickets, on sale at the PPAC box office, are $20 for adults and $15 for students 18 and younger.

-- With reports from Journal staff writer Carolyn Thornton

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