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...from the full-time job De-Shawto has yet to find. "I was really hoping we wouldn't be spending the holidays here," Phenom says, and sighs. "I didn't want to be here that long." The bright lights in the kids' eyes can't bring a sparkle to Mom's. She knows that a family doesn't have to be houseless to be homeless...
...points it out to me. In fact, the only time I've been to a therapy session was when she brought me with her and my dad to talk about how their divorce was hurting my sister; when I got there, the shrink pulled out a column my mom had planted there that I had written for my college paper about being unable to feel anything, which deeply concerned my mom. A column that may or may not have lines I'm reusing right...
When he started Under Armour, says Plank, "I decided to bypass athletic directors and go straight to equipment managers. They control what's on that field." After his initial sale at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, he maxed out his credit cards and hit up his mom and brothers for cash to set up a small production plant in Baltimore. That fall, Dave Campo, then equipment manager for the Atlanta Falcons, admired Georgia Tech's shirts and ordered 100--with long sleeves to protect his players' arms against burns from artificial turf. These were dubbed Turf Gear. Later, Plank...
...some well-to-do households, there is a rite of passage in which the son finally beats the father at tennis. As a teen, Spitzer found himself near that goal one day, closing in for the kill. When his father paused to catch his breath, Spitzer called out, "Mom, Dad is stalling!" The family still talks about the time Bernard cruelly whipped his son in Monopoly...
WorldCom started as a mom-and-pop long-distance company in 1983. But in the 1990s, it matured into a powerhouse. In 1997 it shocked the industry with an unsolicited bid to take over MCI, a company more than three times its size. In 1998 CFO Magazine named Sullivan one of the country's best CFOs. At age 37 he was earning $19.3 million a year. The next year Cooper was promoted to vice president. The stock price had gone through the roof, and she and her friends at work would sometimes talk of retiring early, taking care of their...