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Raise your hand if you knew that Mitt Romney's given name was actually Willard Milton. Anyone? Both names honor men close to Romney's father, former Michigan Governor George W. Romney. Mitt--short for Milton--comes from a cousin who played quarterback for the Chicago Bears from 1925 to '29. And Willard is derived from the elder Romney's close friend and fellow Mormon J. Willard Marriott, who founded the eponymous hotel chain...
After a few years of growing pains, hard-hitting Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor was finding his footing, both as a new father and a team leader. Then on Nov. 26, as his girlfriend and baby daughter slept, an intruder shot him at home; he died the next day. The Pro Bowler...
...decision that I will never not be good enough again," he says. Sure, he may have overcompensated, but how else are movie stars made? Smith grew up the second of four children in middle-class West Philadelphia; his parents Willard and Caroline divorced when he was 13. From his father, who worked seven days a week running a refrigerator company, Smith inherited his work ethic. From his mother, a school-board employee, he derived the notion that "education is the elixir for all problems," he says. "Every problem Jada and I have ever had, we found the answer...
...father, Bryan C. Barnhill, was less impressed by the swank trappings than the Spee’s history. John F. Kennedy Jr. ’40 was once a member...
...came away with the feeling that he was a member of organization of people who were successful and who could network with one another and help each other achieve their goals,” his father says...