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...million contract, which included a $34.5 million signing bonus, is another easy target. So is his birth into football royalty. While it's true that Peyton Manning has worked hard to hone his God-given talent, it doesn't hurt to have had a father like Archie Manning, the Ole Miss legend and New Orleans Saints standout quarterback. All the Manning boys are genetic freaks: younger brother Eli is a starting quarterback, though not an effective one for now, with the New York Giants, and older brother Cooper was slashing toward stardom before a spinal disorder ended his career...
...children, ages 15 to 28) live unassumingly in one of Dallas' affluent neighborhoods. Most of his evenings are spent quietly at home. To cut stuffy out-of-towners down to size, Perot has been known to take them for lunch to smoky, crowded barbecue joints populated by local good ole boys. Says Perot: "Positions and titles aren't important to me. Results are." More often than not, he seems to feel, a daring, decisive move is the best way to get those results...
...thank me for not thoroughly delving into the implications of perhaps the collegiate level’s most controversial moniker, the Rebels of Ole Miss, which can be read as a tacit approbation of slavery and the Confederate cause...
...husbands.” If Harvard seeks a simple solution to not only obviate on-campus homicides but also to promote student well-being, it need look no further. The answer is something that makes even the least nostalgic of us hearken back to the good ‘ole days of junior high: PE. Harvard should create a physical education department, and institute a mandatory physical education graduation requirement...
DIED. Buddy Killen, 73, powerful Nashville music publisher and songwriter who launched the careers of Dolly Parton and Whisperin' Bill Anderson and turned Tree International, the company he ran with Grand Ole Opry manager Jack Stapp, into a music-publishing titan; of liver and pancreatic cancer; in Nashville. Killen's songs became hits for performers like Conway Twitty (I May Never Get to Heaven) and the Little Dippers (Forever). In 1989, in a deal that marked a new high for country music, he sold Tree International to CBS for more than $30 million...