Word: giftedness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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It's easy to pick up a newspaper and see some comparison between your brothers and Barack Obama. Is there any validity to that comparison? Barack is certainly an extremely gifted and talented individual. But my brothers are on a special plateau for me. They're my heroes.
"In my wildest dreams I cannot imagine what the impact will be," says Larry Walter, principal of El Dorado High School. If its 320 seniors include some scions of old oil money, there are also "kids who simply could not afford to go to college, and others who were limited...
The center of Sofia brims with Old Country attractions--the changing of the presidential guard, streets made from yellow bricks gifted by Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I--but the city of 1.2 million is compact enough for visitors to venture to locales off the beaten track, like the communist monument...
I was at that glittering opening night of The First Emperor as a movie-critic. The title role is sung by Placido Domingo, who in the 80s displayed his celebrated tenor in movie versions of Cavallieri Rusticana, Pagliacci, La Traviata and Otello, all directed by Franco Zeffirelli. But I was...
A theory once prevailed that if the top 100 male tennis players were banned from touching a racquet for a month, the great American baseliner Andre Agassi would have been most likely to win the first tournament played thereafter. The reasoning was that Agassi, who retired last year, was the...