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Frederik G. Pohl, co-author of “The Last Theorem,” met Clarke in 1950. The two science fiction writers remained friends and collaborators until Clarke’s death. “When we were writing ‘The Last Theorem,’ [Clarke] was ill, and progressively more so,” Pohl says. “But it was a pleasure anyway...
...Winsor School, a private all-girls school in Boston, the small amount of gender stereotyping she encountered was quickly outweighed by the positive nature of her experience. Fleming felt that when she made the decision in eighth grade to attend an all-girls high school, her choice was met with biting responses. “There was an assumption that people made, that I might be a feminist, and in middle school the boys would joke about lesbianism,” Fleming says. Joanna Marquina ’10, didn’t want to leave her guy friends behind...
...college, Stanley had started introducing herself as Ann. She met Barack Obama Sr. in a Russian-language class. He was one of the first Africans to attend the University of Hawaii and a focus of great curiosity. He spoke at church groups and was interviewed for several local-newspaper stories. "He had this magnetic personality," remembers Neil Abercrombie, a member of Congress from Hawaii who was friends with Obama Sr. in college. "Everything was oratory from him, even the most commonplace observation...
...several months after they met, Obama's parents got married in Maui, according to divorce records. It was a Thursday. At that point, Ann was three months pregnant with Barack Obama II. Friends did not learn of the wedding until afterward. "Nobody was invited," says Abercrombie. The motivations behind the marriage remain a mystery, even to Obama. "I never probed my mother about the details. Did they decide to get married because she was already pregnant? Or did he propose to her in the traditional, formal way?" Obama wonders. "I suppose, had she not passed away, I would have asked...
...Dunham SoetoroWhen her son was almost 2, Ann returned to college. Money was tight. She collected food stamps and relied on her parents to help take care of young Barack. She would get her bachelor's degree four years later. In the meantime, she met another foreign student, Lolo Soetoro, at the University of Hawaii. ("It's where I send all my single girlfriends," jokes her daughter Soetoro-Ng, who also married a man she met there.) He was easygoing, happily devoting hours to playing chess with Ann's father and wrestling with her young son. Lolo proposed...