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...Peter's uncle, Godwin Akpan Johnson, had reservations about his nephew's career choice. "As a family member when you saw him boxing you got disturbed," he says. "We wanted him to finish school, but God wanted him to be a boxer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punching Their Way Out of Poverty? | 6/6/2008 | See Source »

...Oakes, nephew of Harvard’s fourth president, worked as a minister in the Massachusetts town of Billingsgate before his congregation fired him amid outrage over his scandalous marriage and indeterminate parish...

Author: By Liz C. Goodwin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Through the Centuries, The Other '08s | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...sure that he wanted to because he made the decision to retire, but when the board asked him if he would come back, of course he would say yes,” said Amory Houghton III ’74, the nephew of the senior fellow. “The board trusted him, the employees trusted him, and the customers trusted him. It was a perfect match, and he brought the credibility...

Author: By Kevin Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: James R. Houghton | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...started taking children's portraits nearly eight years ago, when she shot a couple of rolls of film of her nephew. It took her only one day with that little boy to realize what comes across so vividly in her work: children are the perfect subjects to photograph. "They have no reservations," she says. "They are the most honest models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Loretta Lux | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

...Visit Kennedy's hideaway office in the Capitol and one can see a photographic guide through his unparalleled family political history: his brothers John and Bobby, nephew John F. Kennedy Jr., his nieces Caroline and California First Lady Maria Shriver. But Ted Kennedy's legacy comes not merely from his family history, but his achievements as one of the greatest legislators of the century. "Kennedy's best years in the Senate came after his presidential run," former Majority Leader Tom Daschle told me later in the week. "The lion that he is today is in part due to his presidential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Senate, Ted Kennedy Still Rules | 5/17/2008 | See Source »

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