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...Even those who liken Harvard and Yale to twins have to admit that no twins are truly identical. For instance, some twins have different genders or different personalities. Other twins are separated at birth and then reunited in Shakespearean comedies. So, what makes John Harvard different from Eli Yale? Personality? Gender? Or something else altogether, like Eli’s birth defect...
...bouquets for Hawke. Eli, a former taxi driver, chips him for being a bad tipper one day years ago. "You said, 'Keep the change,' " Eli says, "and the change was 5 cent!" Another passer-by bawls him out on economic grounds, something about the prediction - actually Paul Keating's - that Australia would become a banana republic. But overall, the reception's good. "Bob's one of my heroes," says Newhouse. "And as you can see, he's still got it." It's hard to see Labor winning Wentworth. But if that happens, a silver-haired charmer will feel...
...meantime, the Eli will almost surely move to 7-0 tomorrow. This matchup is shaping up like a slasher flick: Yale’s top-ranked running game, averaging four touchdowns and upwards of 300 yards per game, slashing through the helpless, shrieking, league-worst Lions defense, which routinely lets opponents top 250 yards rushing. Mike McLeod, who has already sewn up Ivy Player of the Year honors, had a subpar afternoon last weekend--147 yards and three touchdowns in a triple-overtime win at Penn...
...being a runt in a litter that includes a President. But it couldn't have been easy being Billy Ripken either, an unexceptional major league infielder craning his neck for notice while the press swarmed around Hall of Famer and elder brother Cal. It can't be easy being Eli Manning, struggling to prove himself as an NFL quarterback while big brother Peyton polishes a Super Bowl trophy and his superman stats. And you may have never heard of Tisa Farrow, an actress of no particular note beyond her work in the 1979 horror film Zombie, but odds...
...differences don't stop there. Studies in the Philippines show that later-born siblings tend to be shorter and weigh less than earlier-borns. (Think the slight advantage the 6-ft. 5-in. [196 cm] Peyton Manning has over the 6-ft. 4-in. [193 cm] Eli doesn't help when he's trying to throw over the outstretched arms of a leaping lineman?) Younger siblings are less likely to be vaccinated than older ones, with last-borns getting immunized sometimes at only half the rate of firstborns. Eldest siblings are also disproportionately represented in high-paying professions. Younger siblings...