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...when Jack, Bobby and Ted were growing up in the 1930s and '40s, the press wasn't watching their every move. But the Kennedy cousins have suffered the attention of the media from the moment they were old enough to cut a high school class or fail a bar exam. It's enough to make any sane person wary of doing anything that would bring the media further into one's life. Like run for office. Last year, when Joe II retired from the House and from politics altogether, he had just gone through two public embarrassments. His ex-wife...
...their shadow he lived life in full; he kayaked and parasailed and Rollerbladed through Central Park, traveled to India to study health care and dated Madonna and Daryl Hannah, flunked the bar exam twice and couldn't go for pizza without the tabs coming along. If he was less reckless than his cousins, it was not saying much; there were friends who turned down the invitation to take to the skies with him. Pilot Kyle Bailey watched the plane take off Friday night. "I didn't lose any sleep over it," he says. "I figured he must know what...
...part to please Jackie, he enrolled in New York University's law school, completing his study in three years and--infamously--requiring three cracks at the bar exam before he passed. But book smarts aren't the only kind; Kennedy had a highly developed emotional intelligence, an intuitive feel for people. It was on display in his work as an assistant district attorney in the office of Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau, where he showed great concern for the damaged people who came through the system. He confessed a few times to sympathizing with the defendants he was supposed...
...Boston Public schools faced a major blow in November 1998, when the first circuit court ruled in favor of Sarah Wessman, a white student who claimed that race-based admissions policies illegal denied her admission to the exam-based Boston Latin School...
...been told you have mitral-valve prolapse, it makes sense to ask your doctor to check again, particularly if it was diagnosed several years ago. That may be as simple as reviewing the tapes of your last ultrasound exam. If you do have mitral-valve prolapse but no thickening of the valves or backflow of blood into the left atrium, you probably don't need to take antibiotics before most dental procedures, according to the latest guidelines. Still, be sure to alert your doctor if you experience shortness of breath, a racing heartbeat or light-headedness...