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...many elements of Perot's biography have become a standardized recitation: the son of a Texas horse trader (yes, literally) and cotton dealer, Ross learned Norman Rockwell values at home in Texarkana and as an enthusiastic Boy Scout. An Annapolis graduate, he lost his zeal for the Navy because its bureaucracy was stifling, and he tried to get out early. He became a top salesman for IBM, but the company cut his commissions so that he would not earn more than his managers; worse, when he fulfilled his annual quota by Jan. 19, 1962, he was forced to sit idly...
...Houston Customs office. "We would not be beholden to report to the U.S. State Department in the foreign country." Perot, he says, seemed ready to invest $1 million to $2 million and even assign an employee (another former Green Beret -- Perot keeps a number of them around) to scout potential sites. But Customs headquarters in Washington turned down the idea...
Clinton was dutiful to a fault in this period, becoming a superachiever in school and a drudge at community service. He not only played in the band but also helped its director organize statewide musical events. He was a devoted Boy Scout. His readiness to volunteer was so great that his high school principal called a halt when she felt adults were exploiting him -- as when the local heart fund wanted to make him an officer. "Bill just couldn't say no to these requests," she told Clinton's mother...
...sure. James Paul McCartney was the son of working-class Irish parents. His father was a cotton salesman and an ex-jazz trumpeter and piano man, his mother a midwife. As a child, McCartney was a Boy Scout and a bird watcher. His first real instrument was a Zenith six-string, which he played left-handed. In 1960 he was just one of four unknown teenagers performing in the squalor of Liverpool's underground Cavern club. By 1965 the Beatles had stormed America, met the Queen and been hailed as pop prophets. By 1971 -- before any of the four...
...civic leaders hailed Yahweh ben Yahweh for his message of black self- sufficiency and clean living. The mayor declared a day honoring Yahweh for his efforts to get drug dealers out of blighted neighborhoods. But a Fort Lauderdale jury was unpersuaded by the notion of sect leader as Boy Scout. After five days of deliberation, Yahweh and six of his followers were found guilty of conspiracy in the murders of "white devils" and fire bombing an entire block of Delray Beach...