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...child of Marian and Fraser Robinson, a stay-at-home mother and a city pump operator, Michelle was raised in a close-knit family that ate every meal together, played Monopoly and read together. "Nobody emphasized public service. What was emphasized was doing what you love to do and you'll be good at whatever you do," says Craig Robinson, Michelle's brother, who left his banking job after a decade to coach college basketball. That didn't stop Robinson from being surprised when Michelle left Sidley Austin to become an assistant to Chicago mayor Richard Daley. "Her father asked...
...soon halted, and on Friday the Dow stormed back 36.06 points--its eighth-best day ever--to close the week at 1874.19. What really jolted the nerves of Wall Streeters, though, was the fallout from the Dennis Levine insider-trading scandal, the worst in history. Paranoia swept the close-knit investment community a week after Levine, 33, a former managing director at the firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert, pleaded guilty to criminal charges of income tax evasion, securities fraud and perjury and settled a civil suit charging that he had made $12.6 million in illegal stock- market profits on corporate...
Fifth Set: Federer, who has worn a ridiculous throwback knit sweater to warm up for all his matches this fortnight, warms up after the rain delay without it. At this point, in the midst of his ferocious comeback, it's as if he's abandoned affectation and become all heart...
...become a jeweler, a carpenter, a snake charmer, a rag picker, a midwife, a weaver or a cobbler. Although the caste system was outlawed in India's founding constitution 60 years ago, caste still shapes the lives of millions of people who continue to live in close-knit caste communities throughout the country. Such clans are especially common among India's rural poor and urban slum dwellers. Many urban dwellers, like the people of Kathputli, brought their rural traditions with them when they migrated to the cities...
...which celebrated its 50th birthday on Saturday with a reunion open to all its alumni, has been revised, painted over, and tweaked by its residents over the years. But since its inception as a cheaper alternative to the upperclass Houses, it has maintained a fiercely independent, tight-knit, and free-wheeling nature that has provided a valuable replacement for traditional House life for some students...