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...smart short people do exist. Milt, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, made a killing as a Wall Street trader in the 1990s, but quit finance to chase his dream of becoming a basketball coach. He has trained many NBA players, including this year's top draft pick, Oklahoma's Blake Griffin, and even landed an assistant coaching gig for the Los Angeles Clippers' summer-league team...
...fascination with Barbie has kept countless numbers of people in work. Oklahoma artist Debbie Curtis has built a career around painting Barbie portraits, Texans John and Cindy Prewitt run a business selling handmade furniture for Barbie, and North Carolina's Bradley Justice runs a specialty Barbie shop...
...Meanwhile, Bush was running his own traps. He called Jim Sharp, his personal attorney in the Plame case, who had been present when he was interviewed by Fitzgerald in 2004. Sharp was known in Washington as one of the best lawyers nobody knew. A savvy raconteur from Oklahoma who had represented a long list of colorful clients - from Nixon pal Charles G. (Bebe) Rebozo to Sammy Sosa - Sharp had worked quietly for the President for a while before anyone even knew about it. In the meantime, the two men had become friends, spending hours chatting over cigars and near beer...
...Alex Poots, 42, director, Manchester International Festival My perfect day would start at Oklahoma, tel: (44-161) 834 1136, one of the Northern Quarter's many bohemian cafés. For a moment's peace and quiet I'd head to St. Mary's, the "Hidden Gem" church, tel: (44-161) 834 3547, a beloved Manchester institution since 1794, before going over to the Manchester Velodrome to watch some of Britain's Olympic gold-medal cyclists train at the National Cycling Centre, tel: (44-161) 223 2244. Evening would find me at Bridgewater Hall, tel: (44-161) 907 9000, which...
...Believe me, he knew. He kind of looked like a clown when I was talking to him.' JIM INHOFE, an Oklahoma Republican, saying he meant no offense when he called a fellow Senator, Minnesota's Al Franken, a "clown...