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...mentioned your parents' emphasis on academics. Who else has been an inspiration for you? Garrett Johnson, who won the Rhodes Scholarship in 2006 at Florida State, is another. He and I have grown very close. He helped me through the Rhodes application process - he would send me text messages every day with interview prep questions - and has mentored me with how to deal with the media. If I have a question about females, he'll give me advice. He's somebody who I trust, respect, admire. Then there's Bill Bradley. He played basketball at Princeton, played for the Knicks...
...where she’s coming from,” Fish said. But some Harvard students said they do not agree with their siblings’ assessments of Harvard’s lack of social life. “I thoroughly disagree,” said Phoebe H. Johnson-Black ’10, whose brother, Harvey A. Johnson-Black, is a freshman at Yale. “Harvey and I had a little debate about this, this morning. I think we have a great time here.” For their part, Harvard students said that their university?...
...points on 5-of-13 shooting and eight rebounds.“She could be one of the best players to ever wear this uniform,” Delaney-Smith said. Marist took the lead for good just three minutes into the game on a layup from forward Lynzee Johnson, but Harvard stayed within single-digit striking distance throughout the half. With starters Niki Finelli and Katie Rollins on the bench with two fouls apiece, Alemany was thrust into action and sparked the Crimson’s offense to keep things close. Her three-pointer with 1:50 to play...
VIDEO AT TIME.COM To watch a video interview with Magic Johnson and to subscribe to the 10 Questions podcast on iTunes, go to time.com/10questions
Last year's fiction winner, Denis Johnson's 624-page Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), for example, was a critical darling and Pulitzer finalist, that, like those first NBA winners, failed to top bestseller lists. And in 2001, Jonathan Franzen, winner of the fiction award for his 500-page work The Corrections, bristled at being chosen for Oprah's Book Club a month prior, inciting calls of elitism from other writers. But the foundation has recognized some household names in its past: Oprah Winfrey herself received a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1999, as did horror...