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...past six Republican conventions, that's because even they find it "mind boggling" that it is W. who has brought them here. By the standards of the people who love him most, he lacks the temperament to wear the crown. Oh, he is fun, outrageous, the house rebel, great to have around. But when it came to the family business, it was brother Jeb who was supposed to take over and run the show...
...monogram his resume at Andover and Yale, even as he played on all the same fields his father had, he played by different rules and in a very different climate. He didn't have the talent to be the baseball-team captain, so he became commissioner of stickball, a rebel sport that upended Andover's jock culture and gave everyone a chance, however hopeless their natural gifts. He tried at first to impress his teachers, combing through the thesaurus for a synonym for tears to use in an English essay he was writing about his sister's death...
...Bush a perfect chance to become his own man, as many sons of privilege did. Many of them forswore their trust funds, dodged the draft, grew their hair, switched from beer to pot. But in a way, the opposite happened with W. He may have been the family rebel, by their standards, but even from the earliest days, he was also the protector, fiercely defending his dad. His father ran for the Senate in Texas in 1964, opposing the civil rights bill and supporting Barry Goldwater all the way. His opponent, Senator Ralph Yarborough, lost no chance to paint Bush...
...fact he found plenty to rebel against in college. He bridled at the "intellectual arrogance" he encountered, at those who "wrote him off because he was a legacy kid," says his classmate Robert Birge. W. upheld the tradition of the gentleman's C; when undergraduates renounced frat life as a waste of time, he made it the center of his social life. His run-in with the law came not during an antiwar sit-in or a civil rights march but on a raucous night when he and his fraternity brothers "liberated" a Christmas wreath from a local hotel...
...Microsoft's natural habitats 2. Justice Fortas 3. Inits. on rebel uniforms 4. O.K. Corral figure 5. Ivory __, where coup rumors abound 6. Einstein's birthplace 7. The A.E.F. went Over There to win it 8. Senator Tom, who wants to limit teen work hours 9. "Got two fives for __?" 10. Barr's Cabinet successor 11. Guitar bar 16. Robert Conrad wants him investigated 20. Meat-loaf serving 21. __ Nagila 22. River to the Baltic 24. Taper off 25. Treasure Island monogram 26. Explorer Hernando de __ 28. Refusenik's refusal 30. Form 1040 deduction 31. 401(k) cousins 32. First...