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...much as I can." Koné's tale is a dramatic one. Born in the southern Malian village of Niéna - a place that even today has no electricity or running water - Koné came to France at 10, unable to speak the local language. He got a prelaw degree in the hope of becoming a police inspector. A talent for boxing earned him two French amateur titles and selection to represent France in the 1996 Summer Games. But an auto accident in early 1995 shattered his left knee; Koné required 12 operations and five years of rehabilitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hippest Cat in France | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

...Those banlieues erupted in riots earlier this year.) But Koné's dramatic tale goes deeper. Born in the southern Malian village of Niéna, which even today has no electricity, Koné left for France at age 10 unable to speak French. He went on to obtain a prelaw degree in the hopes of becoming a police inspector. A talent for boxing earned him two French amateur titles, and he was selected to represent France in the 1996 Summer Games. But an auto accident in early 1995 shattered his left knee, requiring 12 operations and five years of rehabilitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entrepreneurs: The Hippest Cat in France | 5/14/2006 | See Source »

...assumed everyone at Harvard will be premed or prelaw,†she shrugs, “I thought I should be doing something ‘academic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson’s Alternative Honorees for ’05 | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

...when it comes to matters of the heart. According to a recent nationwide poll in USA Today, 60% of U.S. teens have dated outside their race. Ali Zeidan, 22, a white Indiana native and computer major at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and Melody Twilley, 19, a black prelaw student, are among them. The couple became engaged this past Valentine's Day after meeting on the Internet last year. When they started living together, Melody's dad, a businessman in mostly black Wilcox County, "got mad and made me pay my share of the rent," says Melody. But then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Color-Blind Love | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

After an aborted stint at Northeast Louisiana University (he was prelaw), McGraw went into country music and signed with Curb Records. He fell in love with Hill while both were headliners on the aptly named Spontaneous Combustion Tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tennessee Two-Step | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

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