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...house police found four children all huddled together. They knew they were children by the size of their skulls. Near a road, firefighters found the body of a man who appeared to have crashed his motorcycle and then died as he tried to outrun the flames. One man put his children in the car and dashed back to his house to collect something; when he returned the car was on fire and his children dead...
...Stephen M. Wilkins, a manager in the department of sports administration with CPS, knew Duncan well before working under the CEO. The two were raised one block away from each other in Hyde Park. “He grew up in the unlikely scenario,” says Wilkins, “of a kid from a solid middle class background going across the very real racial lines of Chicago to tutor kids eight blocks from where he lived...
...people who knew Duncan in childhood and on the basketball court expect big things from the new education secretary, whom they remember as a goal-oriented and passionate leader. “I think any time you have basketball players in positions of leadership, it’s a good thing,” says Mclaughlin, laughing...
...tenacity from Craig as he helps guide the Obama administration. Although Craig’s days of hammering away at typewriters in Leverett Towers are far behind him, old classmates say they recognize the same energetic, good-humored, and ingenuous Craig on television as White House Counsel that they knew in college...
...seat beside three women traveling together. They offered me homemade cake and a stick of gum while they chatted and sipped mini-bottles of white wine from the café car. Through the train’s windows, we watched the American cityscapes and countrysides fly by. I knew I had to go. Especially when I found out that I would finish finals the Saturday before he was to be sworn in. But despite my long-standing resolution to be there in person to hear this extraordinary orator, the new leader of our country, I failed to make...