first question - what menu?
page menu for instance has the class 'current_page_item' on the link to the current page, which you can use to style the link in the style.css. others are similar, check the codex for the corresponding links ;-)
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages#Markup_and_styling_of_page_items
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