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...They met cute. In 1967, Smith was a dreamy 20-year-old from a blue collar family. She was obsessed with art, film and books, and her taste in decadent demigods was impeccable, from Charles Baudelaire to William Burroughs. But she was drifting into a prosaic life. The previous year she had gotten pregnant, dropped out of a teachers' college, placed the baby with an adoptive family and started punching a clock in a textbook factory. In desperation she lunged for New York City with her drawing pencils and a copy of Rimbaud. Straight off the bus she headed...
...fact is, von Hohenlohe is a talented skier who has somehow met the Olympic qualifying standards at 51 - and it was infinitely easier for him to do that as an athlete from Mexico where no one skis, than from Austria, where the sport is a national obsession and the competition is cutthroat. Is von Hohenlohe simply a rich heir toying around the Alps, and using a poor country to reach the Olympics? "In life you have a couple of opportunities and openings," the prince argues. "And one of them was that I was born in Mexico. Sure, I used...
...rebels have been able to talk to one of their own in the presidency. And he knows his homeland. In 2007, Edwin Clark, a longtime mentor and powerful backer to Jonathan, took the then newly elected vice president to the wild and dangerous creeks of the Niger Delta. "He met some of the militant leaders," says Clark. "He is aware of their demands, their aspirations and he is aware of everything, the neglect of our people...
Goldstein smiles as she relates the story of how she and Pinker met. As one might expect of a Harvard professor and his wife, the two read each other's works long before meeting in person. Pinker even quoted Goldstein in his book “Words and Rules” before the two were introduced. When she stumbled upon the quote, Goldstein says, “I thought, oh my Lord, Steven Pinker knows...
...couple formally met when a magazine wanted to arrange a conversation between a scientist and a writer. The magazine asked Pinker which author he wanted to speak with, and he chose Goldstein. The rest, as they say, is history...