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...Given that his life has already seen enough hardship and redemption to warrant full bluesman stature, Ponnudorai is unfazed by the indifference. A Tamil by ethnicity and Malaysian by birth, he grew up in the tin-mining town of Ipoh, the youngest of 10. Ponnudorai's parents were too poor to buy him a metronome: he learned his exquisite sense of timing by playing along to the creak of an old ceiling fan. Naturally left-handed, he taught himself to play on a right-handed guitar because it was cheaper than a model strung for left-handers (and this...
...Horowitz received his ham license at age eight, earning him celebrity status as the youngest ham in the nation at the time...
When Tony Blair was elected to Britain's House of Commons in 1983, he was just 30, the Labour Party's youngest M.P. Labour had just fought and lost a disastrous election campaign on a far-left platform, and Margaret Thatcher, fresh from her victory in the Falklands War, was in her pomp. The opposition to Thatcher was limited to a few ancient warhorses and a handful of bright young things. Blair, boyish Blair, quickly became one of the best of the breed...
...Kyle raised the idea of doing a crossword contest at Harvard, and I thought it was a great idea,” said Shortz. Shortz founded the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT), after which this tournament was modeled. At the age of 17, Mahowald was the youngest person to ever have a Sunday crossword published in The New York Times. He recently placed 7th in the junior division of the 2007 ACPT. Back in Science Center C, students, faculty, and other Harvard affiliates attempted to solve this week’s Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday Times puzzles in the time...
...Elizabeth Edwards, who also watches over the family’s two youngest children, has continued to publicly campaign for her husband...