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...Yeltsin's whole life seemed to be preparation for the kind of impulsive courage that was required to put him atop the tank that day in 1991. At the very moment of his 1931 baptism in the remote Ural Mountains village of Butko, some 900 miles east of Moscow, a tippling priest carelessly dropped him in a baptismal font and was too inebriated to pull him out. His parents had to rescue him. "It means," the priest murmured, "that he is a good, tough lad." That was a necessity for survival in western Siberia during that era of Soviet history...
...bothered when Harvard’s Overseers interfered with his governance, and with only 50-60 students in 1654, he was able to rule with relatively little resistance. He was forced to resign, however, for his illegal—and radical—opposition to the doctrine of infant baptism. Instead of recanting his position to maintain the presidency, Dunster began a tradition of eschewing the status...
...have something that other kids there didn’t have in that some kids had been incredible financial analysts on Wall Street, but they had never had to manage anyone,” she says. “So, I actually had a little baptism by fire.” After working in consulting and having four children, she joined HBR in 1996 and worked her way up to becoming editor. Today, she is proud of having increased the journal’s frequency of publication from six to 12 times a year. CONFLICT OF (LOVE) INTERESTAnd then...
...than any Expos paper: take over the positions of two of the most skilled Crimson defensemen in recent memory, and make the transition smoothly and quickly enough to keep the team competitive down the stretch. This was not going to be a rebuilding year. Facing a sink-or-swim baptism into the world of college hockey, Christian and McCafferty learned instantly. “Everything’s a little faster [in college play], and you have to make decisions quicker,” McCafferty says. “But then as you play in the first couple of games...
...unison, like fingering the rosary, taking a shot of whiskey, or serving up justice with an ass-kicking. 2. Every time someone drops the F-Bomb. Take two shots if someone drops it more than 8 times in one sentence. Go ahead, count. 3. When you hear the baptism reference while the brothers are in prison. Actually, take six shots, you dirty heathen. 4. Every time Willem Dafoe, playing a cop, reminds you of a J. Crew model that’s been run through a trash compactor. 5. Every time Dafoe mocks someone by assuming a false accent...