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Geoffrey isn't the first Fieger to draw some limelight. His dad, the late Bernard Fieger, was a prominent Detroit labor lawyer, and his mother June was a union organizer. Of three siblings, younger brother Doug enjoyed the most fame, as the lead singer of the rock group the Knack, whose song My Sharona topped the charts worldwide in 1979. Sister Beth is a writer. But the family isn't surprised that Geoffrey has become so colorful in his work. "Look at the people who will go on the Jerry Springer show and display the most hideous aspects of their...
...dedicated himself to "the light side of life" knows that the dark side has a way of encroaching, even on post-hippie millionaires like himself. He has worked hard to fix a once broken marriage. He watched his father slip into the fog of Alzheimer's disease and his mother suffer a crippling stroke. And Buffett very nearly died two years ago, when the vintage seaplane he was piloting crashed and flipped during takeoff from Nantucket Harbor, leaving him dazed and "hanging like a captured insect" in a cockpit filling with water. After he clawed...
...enough of an achievement that she gets to star in them. Bassett, who turns 40 next Sunday, was raised in Florida by her mother, a social worker, and a supporting cast of relatives. Her mother was from the old school. "If you wanted a life, you had to keep those studies up," Bassett says. "If you dropped to C's, no cheerleading, no community theater! I got the message." On the advice of a director in a summer-activities program, she was spurred to dream big and apply to the top schools. Presto, she was at Yale. "And who knew...
...about getting in than about how his family would come up with the more than $20,000 a year it was going to cost. Thomas Wartmann, Christopher's dad and a route salesman in the Frito-Lay division of PepsiCo, earned just $38,000 last year, and Christopher's mother Eva earned $17,000 as a tennis coordinator at a country club. They faced a challenge common to the families of more than a million aspiring college students each year: how to pay the tuition, room and board that, without some kind of help, can total a third or more...
...mother of a gay son, I know that my son did not choose to be homosexual. I knew when he was three years old that he was "different." Why would gay people choose this sexual orientation when they must endure ridicule and discrimination every day of their lives? Homosexuals do not need to be "cured." They simply need the freedom to be who they are. JANE BROWNLEY Lauderdale...