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...name is Ken Noguchi, and he is an unlikely candidate for such unglamorous work. The son of a wealthy Japanese diplomat and an Egyptian mother, Noguchi grew up as something of a wild child; he says his family was too busy to pay attention to him. His anxious father sent him to boarding school in England when he was 12, but Noguchi was just as lost there. "I was a dropout," he says. "What I sought was my own world." When he discovered mountaineering, inspired by a book by the great Japanese adventurer Naomi Uemura, he knew he had found...
...only so far ahead. That, after all, is what it means to be human. No person has had the gift of omniscience. Yes, Christians may want to say that of Jesus. But even the Gospels tell us that Jesus doubted on the Cross, asking why his own father seemed to have abandoned him. The mystery that Christians are asked to embrace is not that Jesus was God but that he was God-made-man, which is to say, prone to the feelings and doubts and joys and agonies of being human. Jesus himself seemed to make a point of that...
Royal knows how to play tough. Born in Dakar, Senegal, the daughter of a French army officer, she grew up as the fourth of eight children in a large house in Lorraine. Her father's regime was a strict one (the family intoned Gregorian chants on Sundays). Royal attended a Catholic boarding school and the University of Nancy before attaining the classical educational polish of the French political élite: a degree from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and another from the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA), where her class included the current Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin...
...never have to leave the house. I've found my dream job," she says. She envisions XanGo paying for her son's education, homes in Manhattan and Paris and "the freedom to pursue my artistic side." As for XanGo's health benefits, Blain is a believer. "My friend's father had pancreatic cancer," she says. "After XanGo, he had much more energy...
...games on special teams and defense and was one of the Seahawks’ most popular players in the seven seasons after the franchise made him a fourth-round pick in 2000. Kacyvenski missed Harvard Commencement in 2000 so he could make the team out of training camp; his father, Dave, accepted his diploma in a ceremony at Leverett House. Kacyvenski remains the highest-drafted NFL pick in Harvard history. The Seahawks dropped Kacyvenski to make room for backup running back Marquis Weeks. Regular Seattle running back Shaun Alexander sustained a foot injury on Sept. 24, triggering the move. Kacyvenski...