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...personality, which has made her a leader in her class. ‘I’LL CRY FOR YOURS’Though Randall was born in Detroit, raised there and in Washington, D.C., and schooled here at Harvard, she’s a Southerner at heart.Her father??s family is from Alabama, and she moved to Nashville shortly after graduating from the College.Long before she would revolutionize a Southern literary classic, she says she “rediscovered her Southern roots.”Randall often says, with a hint of pride, that her father...
...When I applied for a Rhodes scholarship, he said to me ‘you’ll never get a Rhodes unless you bribe the judges,’” Daniloff recalls.Daniloff neither bribed the judges, nor received the scholarship. But he did fulfill his father??s wish that he get into a final club.“My father, being an immigrant and refugee, was anxious for me to develop strong American roots,” Daniloff says. “With this mentality that everything gets done through bribes and personal contacts...
...household of a faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study—a leading research center in Princeton, New Jersey—meant having Albert Einstein as a frequent dinner guest and a childhood focused on high intellectual standards.“I was my father??s only child, which means all his expectations were focused on me,” recalls Whitman, whose Hungarian father, John von Neumann, is known as the creator of game theory. “It was pretty intense.”In fact, Whitman initially wanted to strike a path away...
...worked as a dispatcher with the department before becoming a full-fledged officer.His father was a policeman before him, which helped him grow up with a respect and understanding for the profession. He says that he came to understand what good people police officers were through interactions with his father??s colleagues.“I really enjoyed being here and got along well with the [Harvard] community,” says Ferazzi of his days as a dispatcher.For James P. Melia, police work is the family business—his father, his uncle...
...becomes almost impossible to single out one person for an extraordinary performance.Barlowski, a sophomore at Emerson, is sensational—convincingly alternating between his role’s juxtaposing personalities as the tough, bad-ass rule-breaker and the sensitive high schooler who is trying to get over his father??s abandonment. Barlowski amazes with his ability to transform back-and-forth from an eighties’ Elvis Presley, gyrating all over the stage, to a touching Romeo, singing “Almost Paradise” in surprisingly sweet and melting tones to Ariel.Bala...