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During the summer before my eighth grade year, rumors swirled around Belmont that a 6'5" youngster named Asa Palmer was coming. The rumor mill said that Asa had a lineage any basketball coach would salivate over--a brother who was a freshman at Duke and a brother who was a 7'1" center for the Utah Jazz...
...rumor mill turned out to be right. Asa was six-five and did have one brother at Duke and one in the NBA. He was a pretty good basketball player, a little uncoordinated nonetheless, but clearly he had potential...
These things don't happen in Union, a 200-year-old mill town with a huge sign on Main Street welcoming visitors to THE CITY OF HOSPITALITY. There had been two murders in the past two years, both within families. People don't lock their doors, and it's O.K. to talk to strangers. "It's a boringly God- fearing, law-abiding place," says Mark Johnson, 35, who runs veterans' affairs for the county. "The worst thing that happens here is like the song: Bubba shot the jukebox 'cause he didn't like the song...
...search committee member says both insiders and outsiders remain on the list, but will name no names. In the meantime, the rumor mill churns out the usual suspects...
What's the most personal form of expression for your run-of-the-mill Harvard student? No, it's not the day-glow color of your hair...