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...least one student plans to translate his sports backgound into a career. Before the interview, Balcetis lays his phone carefully on its side on the radiator next to him. He doesn’t mention it until the discussion turns to careers and the future. He grins and points at the phone, saying, “I’m trying to actually get a job with the NBA. I’m actually waiting for a call right now, as we speak, with the Player Development Group. Sports entertainment, sports marketing, things like that.” He leaves...
Kelley's farming backgound may explain her concern for the land and the environment. Kelley, whose family has been in farming for several generations, said of her interest in farming, "I think its genetic." Kelley wanted to be a farmer even as a young girl, she recalls, although her mother, a Chicago opera singer, encouraged her to pursue ballet...
...Major in the Quartermaster Corps, later for a time a U.S. secretary for the Inter-Allied Munitions Council. He bought the 81-year-old Journal in 1925, still does much of its leg work. He has five assistants, only one of whom (a former chaplain) has a military backgound. O'Laughlin's closest friend: John J. Pershing...
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