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...father's triumphant victory. In a role that probably would have fallen to her brother if he were alive, Caroline stood, visibly nervous, reminding the gathered that "we are the New Frontier." This was not a battle cry, exactly; Caroline's soft-spoken temperament doesn't lend itself to barn-burning. But she touched on the issues the Democrats wanted to hear: gun control, abortion rights, civil rights and her father's legacy...
...high school he was devising weight machines for his football teammates. An injury sidelined him in 1984, and he dropped out of Youngstown State University to get into the fitness-machine business. With a $500 deposit from a customer, he and a friend started Pyramid Fitness Machines in a barn. By 1993 it was a $44 million company...
...Manhattan and was amazed that it had no computers. He dashed off an e-mail to a handful of fellow CEOs suggesting that they get together over a weekend and put the school online. More than 150 volunteers showed up for what turned into the digital equivalent of a barn raising. Rasiej, 41, was standing on a ladder, pulling computer cable through the high school's ceiling with Gene DeRose, CEO of Jupiter Communications, when he suddenly had an epiphany. "I realized that these people had incredible skills," Rasiej recalls. "I thought, why don't we build a database...
...muggy Tuesday afternoon, and electric blues is pumping out of a ramshackle red barn that sits in the weeds 50 yards beyond the Dickinsons' trailer homes. Outside the barn, a few people are drinking beer and swapping tall tales about mysterious guitar pickers and the talismanic powers of black-cat bones. Inside, Luther and Cody are jamming with two legendary blues families: the sons and grandsons of R.L. Burnside, 72, and of the late David ("Junior") Kimbrough, both giants of hill-country boogie. On the walls, a gallery of American icons--Betty Page, Casey Jones, Father Flanagan, Mississippi John Hurt...
...beers at Senior Bar. Sure, they made some good points about the Harvard administration's cluelessness regarding student life. Sure, it was weird that Harvard had produced presidents, miracle drugs and a Theory of Justice, but the best idea it could come up with for social life was a barn on the MAC Quad. A barn. How about shuffleboard in the middle of Mass. Ave? And sure, he saw his entryway tutor about as often as the backs of his ears...