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Cuban has usually managed to get to the economics ever since his boyhood in Mount Lebanon, Pa., a Pittsburgh suburb, where his father was a car upholsterer. An avid basketball player, Cuban wanted a fancy pair of Puma sneakers, but his dad wouldn't pay. So Cuban, then 12, sold garbage bags door to door to raise the cash. He was a box boy at the local grocer and worked the meat slicer at a deli and at the canteen at a summer camp. To pay his way through Indiana University, he gave disco-dancing lessons, rented the Bloomington National...
...soil was now too soft for planting, so there seemed nothing else to do but relax on the vine-draped porch of the comfortable guest cottage, admire the views across the valley to Mount Te Mata, and look forward to a home-cooked meal washed down with a glass or two from local vineyards...
...glass of his latest vintage, "which for me is getting tired and dirty at harvest time." He takes a sip and smiles. "Now I am not driven by any market demands?I am producing the wine I want to and the market seems to like it." His new vineyard, Mount Edward, tel: (64-3) 442-6113, is only open to those with an appointment and a strong interest in Pinot Noir. If you're lucky you'll catch the winemaker thinking out loud as he tries to solve the puzzles of his precious Pinot's responses to soil and climate...
...morning as Weld professor of Law Charles R. Nesson ’60 takes a set of keys out of his pocket to unlock the gates to the Mount Auburn Cemetery. The key to the gate, he says, was given to him by the cemetery so that he could enjoy his morning walk before the cemetery opens to the public...
...Zubaydah fled to Afghanistan. He was promoted to director of the Khalden training camp near Jalalabad, where he indoctrinated many Europe-based Arabs. As a French official explains, "He was clearly establishing contacts with people he could call upon when his al-Qaeda superiors told him to mount an operation...