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Even playing cards or games at home was practically a contact sport. "It was always kind of 'last man standing' stuff," says Sheila, his older sister by five years. "Being the only boy, Billy didn't want to get beaten by his dumb sister, and I certainly didn't want to get beaten by my dorky brother." Being into sports, says Sheila, who played on the tennis team at Yale, taught the young Fords a sense of meritocracy. "It didn't matter who you were," she says. "You either played well or you didn...
...problems on campus, we students know that the true culpability does not rest on our shoulders, but on those of Harvard’s administrators who put innumerable barriers on our path to success. From funding only the second biggest library in the world (how can Harvard accept being beaten by the Library of Congress!) to giving us a scant two-and-a-half hours to eat dinner, the administration systematically inhibits our growth from ignorant teens into wizened adults. Worst of all, our absurdly long reading period creates so many enticements that even a Harvard student must succumb...
...Millers home schooled their children some years and sent them to the local school others. They lived so far off the beaten path that Bode had to trek through the dark woods to the bus stop. The many hours alone, he says, taught him to think. His parents were laid back, willing to let their children follow their own instincts. That led young Bode to the slopes of Cannon Mountain, an inclination that was no doubt heightened by his parents' split - although each of them lives in separate quarters at the family compound. (See 25 winter Olympic athletes to watch...
...telling indication of Ahmedinajad's woes was the enormous difficulty he faced in appointing an oil minister: his first three choices were summarily rejected by the conservative-dominated Iranian parliament. It didn't help that the man he had beaten in the election, Rafsanjani, is head of the powerful Expediency Council, which arbitrates disputes between the parliament and the ayatollahs. That power allows Rafsanjani to undermine Ahmedinijad's policies. As a result, the President was reduced to moaning that none of his predecessors had ever faced such hostility at home...
...James Frey, on the night of October 24, 1992, pull up outside a bar in Granville, Ohio, in a white Mercury? Was he drunk and high on crack at the time? Did he jump the curb, bump a cop with his car, and then get dragged out screaming and beaten up by the police? Did he then go to rehab, write a book about it, inspire millions of readers and make a ton of money...