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Luke worked in St. Petersburg, where he had to deal with the effects of Russia’s communist history on its people. Because of their experiences, after the Soviet Union fell, a lot of people wouldn’t listen to the missionaries because “they thought you were just trying to brainwash them,” Langford said...
...getting results," says Stephon McCann, 39, a former Kansas City, Mo., bus driver who recently sold his gym "for a lot more" than he put into it and will make $50,000 to $70,000 per year as personal-training director at a Gold's Gym in St. Petersburg, Fla. But go in with reasonable expectations. "You can't imagine how many people I've interviewed who want the $100 [per hr.] celebrity clientele right away," says McCann. "You have to be ready to work...
GRANT Wilderness to Siege of Petersburg...
...found his fighter.When Ulysses S. Grant took command in the East, Lincoln didn't, for once, demand specific plans. Six weeks later Grant had lost more men than every general before him, but Robert E. Lee's army was bottled up in Petersburg, Va. "Hold on with a bull-dog grip," Lincoln urged Grant. Unlike his predecessors, Grant...
PERIL Despite suffering enormous casualties, he relentlessly pounded Lee's army through Virginia to the siege at Petersburg and, finally, Appomattox...