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Ross Perot's speech didn't play well at Harvard. But he isn't dumb--he knew it wouldn't. It will play well in my hometown also. But now Perot can add in a line: "I told all this to those people up at Harvard, where your future politicians come from, and they just laughed...
Henry Louis Gates Jr. recalls his segregated hometown...
Born in New Orleans, Blanchard grew up saturated in music. His father was an insurance man and aspiring opera singer, and his early career paralleled that of Wynton Marsalis, another hometown musician. Blanchard studied composition and classical and jazz trumpet at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, then moved to New York City, where he landed one of jazz's most enviable jobs: trumpeter in the Art Blakey Band...
Cobain formed and reformed a series of bands before Nirvana finally coalesced in 1986 as an uneasy alliance among Cobain, bassist Krist Novoselic (a hometown friend) and eventually drummer Dave Grohl. Cobain married Love in 1992, when the band was first peaking on the charts, when she was already pregnant with Frances Bean, and when both parents had already developed heroin habits (Love claims to have kicked hers immediately after finding out she was pregnant). "It's a whirling dervish of emotion, all these extremes of fighting and loving each other at once," is how Cobain described the marriage last...
Blackmun began as a Justice who blithely upheld a $50 fee for poor people filing for bankruptcy, since all it took was giving up movies and cigarettes for a week. But as in baseball, where he passionately rooted for the hapless Chicago Cubs along with his hometown Minnesota Twins, he came to defend the underdogs in life: blacks, women, gays, aliens, Native Americans. By 1977, in a dissent from the majority's denial of funds for Medicaid abortions, he was aware of " 'another world' out there, the existence of which the Court, I suspect, either chooses to ignore or fears...