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Kelleher, of Somerville, Mass. is 6’ tall and Sousa, of Winthrop, Mass. is 5’11 tall. Both weighed over 200 pounds each the night of the incident. Garcia, who is 5’3 tall, weighed in at 130 pounds that night...
...Pablo Picasso and poet Guillaume Apollinaire. They nicknamed him Le Douanier (the customs man), and traded untrustworthy anecdotes about his gullibility. "These were artists chucking the rule book away," says Morris. "They saw in him an artist who couldn't subscribe to the rule book." In Rousseau's own tall tales, he was a military hero who had visited the jungles of Mexico. But, in fact, he was just the son of a shopkeeper from Laval, northwest France, and after an inglorious army career he settled down to a dull government job in Paris. From 1886 onward he submitted works...
...students get a Category II,” Shad Professor of Business Ethics Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr., said in advance of the decision. “That’s not news. It’s like disclosing that everyone in the class is between five feet tall and seven feet tall...
...peak of his notoriety, some folks called him, inevitably, an international man of mystery; others, the death merchant. He was the subject of the 1986 best seller Manhunt: the Dramatic Pursuit of a CIA Agent Turned Terrorist, by Peter Maas. The former Marine, 77, stands 6 ft. 4 in. tall and was someone to be reckoned with. But Edwin Wilson's roller-coaster ride as a freelance spy flew off the rails in 1982, when he was lured out of Libya in a sting operation conducted by U.S. marshals. He then was convicted in a series of sensational trials...
...early 1950s, LIU BINYAN was a tall, eloquent young man deeply devoted to the ideals of socialism and set for a brilliant career in the People's Republic of China. When he was purged from the Communist Party in 1957 for writing about corruption and banished to a poor mountain village, he suddenly found that there were "two diametrically opposed kinds of truth" in China. The "longings of the peasants" formed one kind, the "policies of the higher-ups" another. The rest of Liu's life?his sufferings as well as his remarkable achievements?followed from his choice to side...