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...come from a family with lesser means, you're never introduced to a jacket and tie or a cocktail. It's just not part of your experience," says Linzee, who grew up in Stony Brook, N.Y. That's the way I look at class, as experiences...
...bolt as he steps into a dingy workingman's cafe in Kragujevac. The man who helped arrange the meeting, a shark-faced lawyer in a purple suit, nods in reassurance, but Lugar stares truculently at two TIME journalists, unsure if we are who we say we are. His jacket stretches tightly across his burly chest, barely hiding a bulletproof vest; he keeps a hand on a briefcase that contains a pistol. He has good reason to take precautions. Since he returned from Bosnia, he has been shot at twice, bashed with an iron bar and slammed with a shovel...
...simple culture clash. "You're dealing with people who have been in this organization a long time and remember the day I was born and might still view me as a kid compared to them," he says. His preferred wardrobe--cowboy boots, jeans, black snap-button shirt and leather jacket--could be seen as a provocation. Even after forswearing wine in 1989, he maintains that "alcohol can be good if it is used in moderation," an unusual stance in the strictly teetotal world of his father's generation of Evangelicals. And then there was that incident with the neighbor...
Instead of a bogus record that inevitably would have been challenged by a still younger child (the Guinness Book of Records officially discontinued its Youngest Pilot categories in 1989, fearing accidents), Americans have a macabre photo album of little Jessica. A mini-Amelia Earhart, in a leather bomber jacket and riding pants. A plucky, pug-nosed girl in a baseball cap who seemed more at home on one of her beloved ponies than in a plane...
...headed off into the cauldron of '60s campus radicalism, first at the University of Michigan, where he got his master's and Ph.D., then to the University of California, Berkeley, to teach. At Michigan he could be considered a rebel only because he wore a jacket and tie at just the moment when that was no longer done...