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Growing up in Appalachia in the 1950s, Brent Kennedy always believed that he was of English and Scotch-Irish descent, just like everyone he knew in his hometown of Wise, Va. But when he saw the film Lawrence of Arabia in 1962, he noticed that his family looked more like the Arabs in the movie than the British. Kennedy had inherited his father's light blue eyes, but he had his mother's black hair and in the summer would get a deep tan. He had heard a story about his great-grandfather being barred from voting in the early...
...spots below classmate William Rehnquist. She eventually got a job in the San Mateo, Calif., county attorney's office by offering to start out working for free. Years later, she expressed the view that being the court's first woman didn't make much difference on its rulings. "A wise old woman and a wise old man are going to reach the same decision," she was fond of repeating...
...said that wise leadership is necessary to ensure that Americans assess the challenges of progress realistically and deal with them effectively, all while retaining fundamental American freedoms...
...Design-wise, there's just one thing that bothered me: because the adapter sits on top of the iPod, it covers up the Hold switch. When you pull out the adapter (or, generally speaking, when you pull anything out of the headphone jack), newer iPods automatically pause. This means that when you're listening to music and lift the adapter to flip the Hold switch, you end up pausing your music then locking your controls. The solution to this weird little riddle is to play your music first, hit the Hold switch second, then put the headphone adapter...
Once the Lincolns relocated to the White House, Mary made a grievous public-relations error that later First Ladies such as Nancy Reagan might have been wise to remember: she redecorated, expensively, extensively and--in the eyes of many--frivolously. Despite a historical catastrophe (the Civil War), Mary dedicated her formidable energies to buying china, ordering wallpaper, updating her wardrobe and bringing good taste and material splendor to a dowdy, poorly maintained residence whose appearance a White House secretary compared to that of "an old and unsuccessful hotel...