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...strongest foe of the Taliban," says Mahmood Karzai, 47, a brother living in Boston. "I always told him to leave Pakistan because I thought he was in danger, but he stayed because he is hardheaded." Unlike most Afghan men, who marry in their early 20s, Karzai remained a bachelor until just a couple of years ago. "Having a wife was not a priority to him," says Pat Karzai, who is married to Hamid's older brother Qayum in Baltimore. "He was only dedicated to Afghanistan." Family members say it was the final illness of his mother, who had expressed...
...bachelor, Kamen lives near Manchester in a hexagonally shaped, 32,000-sq.-ft. house he designed. Outside, there's a giant wind turbine to generate power and a fully lighted baseball diamond; in the basement, a foundry and a machine shop. Kamen's vehicles include a Hummer, a Porsche and two helicopters--both of which he helped design and one of which he uses to commute to work each day. He also owns an island off the coast of Connecticut. He calls it North Dumpling, and he considers it a sovereign state. It has a flag, a navy, a currency...
...wife and running a household was difficult. "I couldn't get my arms around it all," he confesses. He tried to take a job out of state, but his ex-wife took him to court and won. Hoerner became active in Fathers for Equal Rights and wrote a book, Bachelor Parents and Their (Dys)Functional Families: A Guide to Successful Parenting for the Single Male. Now, 10 years after his divorce, he recalls with a chuckle, "My oldest son says that what was missing with a woman's touch was certainly made up for with electronics...
Pusey came to Harvard from Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1924 and graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor of arts in English and Comparative Literature in 1928. A resident of Stoughton Hall, Pusey played on the freshman basketball team and made headlines as the first and only Harvard-Yale “brain test” champion during his senior year...
Landing the most eligible bachelor in the Senate and becoming not only the First Lady but also a celebrated beauty might seem to be the ultimate vindication. By then, however, the damage was done, and Jackie would struggle through much of her life to throw off her mother's baleful view...