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...hard-drinking gold miner who eventually shot and killed himself, Reid grew up in the town of Searchlight, 54 miles south of Las Vegas, in a tiny wood shack with a tin roof. He boarded with a family to attend high school in Henderson, 40 miles away, and he later went to college with money chipped in by Henderson townsfolk. Once an amateur boxer, he worked nights as a Capitol Hill police officer to pay for law school at George Washington University. As chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission from 1977 to 1981, Reid, a devout Mormon, battled organized crime...
...counsel--the official term for every President's in-house lawyer--his role has been larger than that of any other counsel in memory. That's partly because the White House began to lose patience with Ashcroft not long after he was confirmed. The Attorney General had a political tin ear and a weakness for the spotlight. He drew fire for saying critics of the Patriot Act were giving comfort to the enemy. He operated with a tight cabal of longtime aides who prayed together and had an unrivaled distrust of the Justice bureaucracy. After 9/11, Ashcroft...
...Fiesta, and Orange bowls rolled into one glorious face-off, a starched New England epic fraught with history, honor, and a hoary, proprietary blend of intellectualism and intensity. The Bulldogs and Crimson know who the enemy is and when he will be met. They know that win, lose or tin, the game will shadow them the rest of their lives,” the book states on page...
...little of his Hawaii years, of his fondness for bodysurfing and sashimi. Instead we hear in every speech that his mother was from Kansas ("That's why I talk the way I do") and his father was from Kenya ("He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack...
...night owls, company has developed Night Light, which is a caffeniated chai flavor. “Night Light has been marketed at Princeton to help kids stay up and write papers. A full tin probably has the same effect as a cup of coffee,” he said...