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...Taking back Congress seems a perfect task for two such ambitious men as Schumer and Emanuel, who by dint of their abrasive personalities aren't likely to ever appear on a presidential ballot. In the 1980s, Emanuel was working for a consumer watchdog group in Illinois when a political journalist told him he didn?t have time to write about the group because his wife was having a baby. Emanuel showed up in the recovery room, said ?Mazel Tov? and immediately asked, ?when do you think you?ll be back to write that story?? He once sent a 2.5-foot...
...Perry is indicative of the story?s ongoing power and the current film?s success in tapping it. The former executive administrator, now a full-time mother, first read ?Through Gates of Splendor? in her early 20s in the 1980s, a quarter-century after the action it described. She doesn?t remember how she got hold of it, but does recall that it was already ?dog-eared? by the time she received it. ?I was looking for heroes,? she says, ?And I was inspired that somebody cared so much about their faith that they would...
Sandy Christie knows all about the lure of money and a globe-trotting, upscale lifestyle. He spent 11 years working as an investment banker in London and Tokyo. He got into the business in the 1980s, he says, "because I suppose I was interested in money, and thought it sounded like a very glamorous life, which it was." But Christie says he had increasing qualms about what he was doing and realized it wasn't a job he wanted for the rest of his life. So he quit?and became a priest. "Working for money is ultimately unfulfilling," says Christie...
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...yearbook was first published under the name Harvard Yearbook in 1950. After that, the yearbook was bounced around from basement to basement, finally settling on the second floor of 2 Brattle Square in the 1980s, when a trust established by alums bought the entire floor...