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When Netanyahu was 14, he moved with his family to Pennsylvania, where his father taught college. Netanyahu attended high school in a Philadelphia suburb but after graduating, returned to Israel to serve with distinction for five years in Sayeret Matkal, an elite special-forces unit. At 22, he was among the commandos who, in 1972, successfully stormed a hijacked jet on the tarmac at the Tel Aviv airport. Jonathan served in the same unit, and was killed in 1976 while leading the team that rescued the passengers of a hijacked plane at the Entebbe airport in Uganda. Jonathan's death...
When he was 14, Ben-Shachar's family moved back to Israel. Luckily, Israel's only commercial squash court was a five-minute walk from his house in Ramat Gan, a suburb of Tel Aviv. Here, Ben-Shachar's training consisted of a ten-mile run before school and about three hours of on-court afternoon practice. "My life was basically squash," he says. When given the option of graduating from high school early, Ben-Shachar accepted it. Graduating at 16 meant that he had two years to devote to squash before fulfilling his obligatory service in the Israeli army...
...despot is being tried on charges of murder and genocide--in absentia. The guest of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe since 1991 (apparently in gratitude for the help he gave Mugabe's independence struggle in the 1970s), Mengistu lives in luxurious exile in a government-supplied villa in an exclusive suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, safe from repeated extradition requests. He remains in virtual seclusion with his wife and at least one son, under strict instructions to keep quiet. According to some reports, Mengistu has purchased other properties in Zimbabwe, and serves as a "consultant" to the country's security...
...students are white, and a third of those come from outside the district--transported by parents such as Virgil Adams. (The state stopped paying for transportation into the district this year.) Adams or his wife makes a 28-mile round-trip drive twice a day from Blue Springs, a suburb of tidy lawns and two-car garages, so that Sarah can go to second grade and William to third at Sugar Creek. They were drawn by the foreign-language instruction, but Adams, an fbi agent based in Kansas City, sees the social mix itself as an important advantage. "Somewhere...
...actually rooted in more sadness and struggle than the band's detractors are willing to admit and fans are prepared to accept. Three of the band members come from comfortably middle-class upbringings--Felber and Bryan grew up in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and Sonefeld hails from the cozy Chicago suburb of Napersville, Illinois. Rucker's upbringing in Charleston, South Carolina, however, was poorer and harder. His mother was a nurse and his father was "never there"; money was tight and times were hard. "The only time I really dealt with my dad was Sunday morning before we went to church when...