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...first learned about Kedlaya from my first-year roommate Hank Chien, another member of the math elite subculture. My roommate had placed twelfth in the U.S. Math Olympaid, so he always had stories about what life was like on the math competition circuit. ARML, AHSME, AIME, USAMO, MOP--I was buried in math acronyms during my first year at Harvard. Naturally, I quickly learned the names of the legends in the math community, most of whom were at Harvard--Lenny Ng, Sergey Levin, Manjul Bhargava...
...radical Weather Underground, then materialized among the Black Panthers in Algeria. Betrayed and recaptured in 1973, Leary spent most of the next three years in prison. When he was released, he turned his attentions to SMILE (Space Migration, Increased Intelligence, Life Extension) and then to vaudeville--a debate circuit with Watergate figure and old nemesis Liddy. His last few years have been spent migrating in cyberspace, trading on our nostalgia for lava lamps and dealing with cancer doctors...
...began to tour full time. The Southeast has a fertile music scene with plenty of places for young bands to find an audience, from the Georgia Theater in Athens to the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta to Rockafellas, the Elbow Room and Green Streets in Columbia (young bands on this circuit don't earn much; if you're in it for the money, move to Seattle). Hootie fitted right into the Southern pop-rock scene, playing clubs, bars, parties: any parties--birthday parties, frat parties, you name it. They would would sing REM and U2 covers and maybe a few Hootie...
While Jessica's story is a rare and tragic instance, the dangers of such overachieving or intense focus on one activity show up in countless ways. The child actor grows up without an education; the tennis star mysteriously drops off the circuit to spend some time being a teenager; the figure skater takes part in a plot to club an opponent. Child athletes may ruin their bodies: ballerinas develop anorexia; teen football players take steroids. And doctors say they are seeing more and more young people who are not special stars exhibiting a range of emotional problems, from depression...
Blue is the sort of tragically fragile figure someone like Jean Rhys might have created had she written 50 years later and chosen to focus on the lives of well- dressed, verbally agile gay men orbiting the Manhattan-Fire Island party circuit rather than meek turn-of-the-century waifs searching for love in all the wrong outfits. But for Blue, the narrator and centerpiece of Mark O'Donnell's unusually witty novel Getting Over Homer (Knopf; 193 pages; $21), there is at least hope beyond the sort that a good dose of Zoloft could offer...