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...belong. 4. Robert Kraus and Jose Aruego, “Leo the Late Bloomer”: Although not a series, this one still counts because it’s just so darn cute. The social isolation that endearingly cute tiger cub and proverbial ugly duckling Leo faces as the runt of his litter should give hope to every Harvard student who’s ever had an “awkward balloon!” moment. 5. Joan Aiken and Quentin Blake, “Arabel’s Raven”: The stories of lonely English schoolgirl Arabel...

Author: By Mary A. Brazelton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mary A. Brazelton | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...they treat Dan as the runt of the litter? They must think he loves washing his kids' clothes at home, because when he visits his parents they make him sleep in the laundry room. In any matter relating to Dan's rebellious daughters, the family reflexively takes the girls' side over their dad's. His own father (John Mahoney) treats him with the bluff bonhomie of men who wouldn't be caught dead in an intimate discussion. And Dan's mom (Dianne Wiest), it's clear, has been nagging him all his life. "Get lost for a while," she tells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steve Carell in Reel Life | 10/28/2007 | See Source »

...Welcome to a very big club, Bro. It can't be easy being a runt in a litter that includes a President. But it couldn't have been easy being Billy Ripken either, an unexceptional major league infielder craning his neck for notice while the press swarmed around Hall of Famer and elder brother Cal. It can't be easy being Eli Manning, struggling to prove himself as an NFL quarterback while big brother Peyton polishes a Super Bowl trophy and his superman stats. And you may have never heard of Tisa Farrow, an actress of no particular note beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of Birth Order | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

...probably thinking of 'pulling the pin' as he would always say until Golden Boy and Hudaifah had a nice little chat and patched things up. Whereas if everybody else did that they would be thrown off the course (like some Turkistanis were if I remember rightly). Yep. That little runt David Matthew Hicks Al-Qaedah's 24 ct. Golden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Hicks Under Fire | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...Henceforth, it would be considered just another ball of ice in the Kuiper Belt, a swarm of debris orbiting the sun out beyond Neptune. He was on firm scientific ground: many professional astronomers have been leaning that way for years. But people evidently had a soft spot for the runt of the planetary litter. Almost overnight, Tyson became the Grinch Who Stole Pluto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet The New Planets | 10/16/2005 | See Source »

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