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With an M.D. from Yale and an M.B.A. from Wharton, Jacobs is a bona fide member of the Establishment. At the same time, his heritage has given him an outsider's perspective. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Jacobs spent part of his youth on Mohawk reservations upstate and in Canada, where "I was criticized by relatives and friends for being too educated." But he also lived in Anglo communities in New York and New Jersey, where "I was often the darkest- skinned child in my class...
Give the Yale men's hockey team a bona-fide Hobey Baker candidate, a future Olympic coach, a number 10 national-ranking and a chance to move within one point of first place in the ECAC, and maybe--just maybe--it will win in Bright Hockey Center. (It's never won here...
Famous Sports Alumnus: They've got Reggie Lewis. We've got Ted Donato, Don Sweeney and a few others. Ted, Don and Co. had great collegiate careers, but His Reggieness is a bona fide All-Star. Alumnus, slight edge...
...Running mates count. Retired vice admiral and former Vietnam POW James Stockdale is a bona fide hero and scholar. What he is not is someone who should be a heartbeat away from the presidency. After his hapless performance in the vice-presidential debate, Stockdale was barely heard from again. That was a blessing. A vice-presidential candidate ought to have at least a nodding acquaintance with the issues voters care about. By choosing Stockdale, Perot did what George Bush couldn't do: make voters forget their qualms about Dan Quayle...
...heroine of the novel is a "teen sex-bomb blond" named Bubbles Brazil. Bubbles is a bad girl, a former Rocky Horror Picture Show groupie who has become a die-hard peacenik ("I was no phony...l was bona fide. I sucked off Jerry Gracia."). But despite her commitment to hippiedom, Bubbles still has a lot of internalized racism knocking around in her drug-addled brain. So her Black maid, who is a sort of cross between Aunt Jemima and Medusa, puts a voodoo spell on Bubbies, giving her a mysterious case of 'negrophobia...