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...Keith Hahn ’03 signed on to his job as an analyst at J.P. Morgan without prior banking experience, but says that he knew what he was getting into. “I had seen documentaries on the Patan death march and the Holocaust, so I feel that I was prepared for the day-to-day i-banking life,” he says...
Champollion and Fischer were lucky: they were heroes in their time. Deprived of the spotlight, genius can grow up twisted and strange. David Hahn was the child of divorced, clueless parents living in a David Lynch--perfect Michigan suburb in the mid-1990s. A loner and a compulsive tinkerer, Hahn somehow got it into his head in high school to build a nuclear reactor in his mom's potting shed, and damn if he didn't come close. In The Radioactive Boy Scout (Random House; 209 pages), Ken Silverstein describes how Hahn extracted radioactive elements from household objects--americium from...
Stories about geniuses rarely end well. Hahn wound up in the Navy, assigned to the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier the U.S.S. Enterprise, but his officers wouldn't even let him tour the engine room. Champollion died at 40. Fischer never defended his world title. He declined into irascibility and then obscurity. What happened to him? A chess master once said, "Chess is not something that drives people mad. Chess is something that keeps mad people sane." Which is to say that genius may lie not only in having a gift but in lacking something crucial as well. Reading these books...
...televangelist. Indeed, a resurgence in gang activity was one of the main reasons Los Angeles' homicide rate rose 51% in three years, making it the murder capital of the U.S. in 2002 with 658 killings. And Bratton announced they were "job No. 1" after Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn hired him in October...
...will look at times like we are still at war." BRIG. GENERAL DANIEL HAHN, Chief of Staff for the U.S. Army's 5th Corps, on the challenges of establishing stability in Iraq...