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How’s that for pressure? Then again, for a kid that was tough enough to endure daily needle injunctions starting at age 11, the weight of those expectations shouldn’t faze him. Adamopoulos, who describes Murphy as a “natural leader,” would not expect anything less...
...spirits magnate, owner of a portfolio that included Chivas Regal Scotch and Captain Morgan rum. In a mid-1990s documentary about the family, Edgar Jr. recalled his grandfather saying, "Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations. I'm worried about the third generation." Such doubts didn't seem to faze Edgar Jr., who years ago declared, "I'm not going down in history as the one Bronfman who pissed away the family fortune...
...about political ambition. "He could have called the SEC and the general counsels of the investment banks and settled this quickly and quietly," says an executive of another Wall Street firm Spitzer has looked into. "His grandstanding and headline-grabbing aren't good." The criticism doesn't seem to faze Spitzer. "I'd rather have them say I'm opportunistic than wrong," he says...
...University President Lawrence H. Summers watched with his daughter, Ruth, BU started its sprint 10 strokes early. Even that, though, couldn’t faze Radcliffe on this day, as it continued pulling away through the finish, eventually winning by two lengths in 6:43.3, its fastest time on the Charles this spring...
...rare earthquake in the Northeast did not faze hundreds of pre-frosh from descending on Cambridge this weekend—though what they found was somewhat different from past prefrosh weekends...