By Marc Fisher

Gonzaga, the Jesuit high school in a scruffy part of Washington's inner city, is where Ken Cuccinelli II says he became the man he is. The Republican candidate for governor of Virginia emerged in part in John Hoffman's social justice class in 1986, when the teacher pressed the boys to look beyond the facts of poverty and inequality and examine the structures that shape people's lives.

Cuccinelli came into that classroom as a kid from the suburbs who showed great spirit — he was the guy inside the school's eagle mascot costume — and had a bit of a temper, but he was nobody's idea of a rebel.

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