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...local pride. A-bian was the finest student Tainan County had ever seen. "He was always the brightest in his classes," says Chen Chia-cheng, his sixth-grade teacher. "He used to finish his homework for the night before lunchtime." His classmates recall a studious, diminutive boy, annoyingly prim, his hand shooting up to provide correct answers to teachers' queries. The takeaway from his childhood successes: as long as you have boned up on whatever subject is at hand, you will succeed. That principle carried him through a successful career as a lawyer and eventually stints as a legislator...
...intelligence and perspicacity as obvious and tangible as an Olympic sprinter's speed. "He was always the brightest in his classes," says Chen Chia-cheng, his sixth-grade teacher. "He used to finish his homework for the night before lunchtime." His classmates recall a studious, diminutive boy, annoyingly prim, his hand shooting up to provide correct answers to teachers' queries. "He never picked a fight," says Chen Wen-chuan, an elementary-school classmate who still lives in the township, "because he knew he would lose if he did." He was the kind of student whose academic reputation preceded him wherever...
...workingwoman we meet directs our car to a reedy field fringing the gritty eastern townships of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. She doesn't want neighbors to see her being interviewed. She is afraid her family will find out she is a prostitute, so we will call her Thandiwe. She looked quite prim and proper in her green calf-length dress as she waited for johns outside 109 Tongogaro Street in the center of downtown. So, for that matter, do the dozens of other women cruising the city's dim street corners: not a mini or bustier or bared navel in sight. Zimbabwe...
...working in a 16-ft. by 16-ft. office in Jefferson City alongside another Danforth protege whose career was on the rise: Clarence Thomas. The two men could not have been more different. Thomas was more liberal then, with an easygoing manner and appetite for night life. Ashcroft was "prim and proper," a colleague recalled, and Thomas loved to make sport with him, get under Ashcroft's skin. At times Ashcroft would leave a room when his colleagues joked around or waxed profane. Ashcroft and Thomas did share a deep knowledge of the Bible, but it didn't always bind...
...length of a season, or roughly the time it takes a style to travel from New York to the rest of the country where, once embraced, it is unsentimentally dismissed by its original champions. So while the first half of the year was dominated by "ladylike" dressing, the prim skirt-and-sweater sets of demure eras past, the latter half celebrated all things leather. Along the way, women dallied with python skin, revived the Pucci print and fell victim to a mania for garments festooned with logos...