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Kennedy School experts agree that the biggest threat to the University is the spread of “amateur copycats...
Though spontaneous debates sporadically erupt between strangers and amateur theologians, who cluster around the subway entrances off 14th Street, New Yorkers in lower Manhattan seem to have devoted more time to mourning and recovering than to contentious political rallies...
...chance, Johnson met up with amateur surfer Garrett Dutton, lead singer of the college rock act G. Love & Special Sauce. The two surfed and jammed together, and Dutton liked Johnson's song Rodeo Clowns so much that he asked Johnson to record it with him for the 1999 album Philadelphonic. When Rodeo Clowns became the album's only hit, Johnson found himself on the radar of several major record labels. "I had a pretty good gig, the surf-film gig," he says. "I had a lot of fun, and I could pay my bills, which is all I was really...
...class who never let anyone see them study but show everyone their straight A's. They are huge women (Venus, 21, at 6 ft. 1 in.; Serena, 19, an even more muscled 5 ft. 10 in.) who learned the game at home in inner-city Compton, Calif., under an amateur coach, their father--not at the boot camp of coach Nick Bolletieri, where most promising kids are sent. They dominate through their athleticism. Venus, who can serve a ball at 127 m.p.h., is actually less powerful than her sister. But she's faster, comes to the net more and chokes...
Langer, who in lives in the Boston suburbs with his wife and three children and throws an annual barbecue for his lab group at his beach house on Cape Cod, is something of an amateur magician. Folkman, Langer's original mentor, remains one of his biggest fans. "He's a true genius," says Folkman. "He sees answers to problems in such unique ways you can't trace the steps he took." In other words, he's very good at pulling rabbits out of hats...