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...high school, he would skip class sometimes and rarely did his homework. But he was good-natured and kind, so his parents never worried. And Herrgott did owe some gratitude to the classroom: he met his future fiance Sara McWilliams, with him at right, at summer school. Given his penchant for mischief, Herrgott surprised his family when he announced in his senior year that he wanted to be a police officer. To earn money for his training, he joined the Army, just as his cousin T.J. Kewatt had done a year earlier. As kids the two had spent hours playing...
...part of the Bush administration's calculus?is its well-known penchant for message discipline. The success of cabinet members, it sometimes seems, is judged by how well they broadcast policies received whole from the White House, rather than by their advice and guidance in creating them. When the outspoken and off-message Paul O'Neill was fired from his post as Treasury Secretary last year, it didn't take a political scientist to predict the qualities that his successor would have: consistency and loyalty. At look at the candidates...
...while the Pudding’s productions are scripted, occasionally B.J.’s penchant for over-the-top improv has led him to introduce new props, alter lyrics mid-song, or step outside the box—literally. In his junior year, he danced off the edge of the stage and into the orchestra...
...inimitable Tim Jackson, who is sticking around (we have redshirts, too), has made me grin wider than all but a handful of people outside of the Bell family, even as his penchant for getting hurt has made me cringe...
Kosslyn recalls also that he was able to share with Portman a penchant for French film and an acute sense of humor...