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...always loved stories.“I liked to read and would be up at night with a flashlight,” says Elkins, who read historical fiction such as “Johnny Tremain.” Elkins’ attempts at nonfiction storytelling began with a grade-school research paper on the Underground Railroad, her “first voyage of discovery in terms of reading and researching.” By middle school, Elkins was writing regularly.“History is in many ways about good storytelling,” the acclaimed history-teller says...
...stamp on her. "That puts something first, besides funny," she says. "My show's about a hundred other things." Like, oh, AIDS and Hurricane Katrina--for which she devises cheery mock-folk songs--and Brokeback Mountain, which she turns into a video game. Drysdale, 27--who spent her grade-school years in Versailles and Vancouver, B.C., and dropped out of Sarah Lawrence to sell T shirts at Chicago's Second City (before joining the troupe)--is that rarity in the tired-out world of stand-up comedy: a real original. A hit at the 2005 Aspen Comedy Festival, she doesn...
...Puumba once," he says, referring to a grade-school interpretation of Disney’s "The Lion King." The role seems odd now. Kaszynski—originally from Warsaw, Poland—is blonde and beaming, hardly a porcine presence...
...hard to talk to people at Harvard because they are at the top of the ranks,” said Dorothy Chu, admiring the John Harvard statue. Given an all-American nickname in her grade-school English class, Dorothy said, “In the United States you are thinking you are kind of eager to go to University, but it is hard to graduate...
...four men who met at London's King's Cross railwaystation must have looked ordinary enough to the thousands of commuters rushing to work on the morning of July 7. Three were British born--a 30-year-old grade-school teacher with a baby daughter and a reputation for devotion to his learning- disabled students; an 18-year-old described by friends as a "gentle giant," dressed that morning like the universal teenager, in denims and a sloppy jacket; a 22-year-old cricket fan who worked in his family's fish-and-chip shop in Leeds. The fourth...