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...room, where I sat down at my computer and tried to start writing. Something wasn’t working. How do you write a juicy exposé about a guy who once rescued a stray dog, used to secretly shovel snow out of his elderly neighbor’s driveway, and is genuinely interested in what everyone has to say? As his sister says, “Matt is one of the most real people you’ll ever meet,” and his commitment to the UC and to his friends and family, although the source...
Matt Maupin, born while Ronald Reagan was president, is partial to Superman, Star Wars and teriyaki beef jerky. He grew up in a trim ranch house with a basketball hoop next to the driveway and his prized red 1998 Mustang in the garage. "You can pick out most of the guys who go into the military because they walk with a certain attitude," says Nick Ayers, who played with Maupin on their high school football team, the Trojans. "But Matt was really laid-back." That quietness was infused with a drive that pushed him onto the team, as a second...
...kind of situation you practice in your driveway as a kid. Up two, 4.4 seconds left, hit both and it’s ballgame. Miss one or two and you’re possibly staring down the barrel of another chapter in what has recently become one of the most painful sagas in all of Harvard athletics...
...house, which lies just over a grassy hillside from Islamabad's King Faisal Mosque, is modern, squat and dark, its faade concealed behind a vine-covered wall. To the casual observer, the house provides just one clue to its owner's sinister profession. At the end of his driveway sits a large jasmine bush, trimmed into an odd but unmistakable shape: that of a mushroom cloud...
...marketing consultancy based in Philadelphia. "Most of their needs are taken care of by Mom and Dad, so their income is largely discretionary. [Many twentysomethings] are living at home, but if you look, you'll see flat-screen TVs in their bedrooms and brand-new cars in the driveway." Some twixters may want to grow up, but corporations and advertisers have a real stake in keeping them in a tractable, exploitable, pre-adult state--living at home, spending their money on toys...