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...drove my car into a ravine") gave him the limp that he still walks with at 45; in his head are two drainage holes, covered merely by a thin layer of skin, bored during brain surgery, the legacy of another smash that almost killed him. He will sit and drink Scotch after Scotch with disconcerting ease and tell of a bluesman's life-of scrapes with jealous musicians wanting to cut his fingers off, and of playing to audiences of gun-toting triads in Kuala Lumpur nightclubs. And like so many who have flirted with the devil...
...chaos of mass urbanization in the late 19th century, teens were already notoriously drawn to trouble. The street gangs that carved up New York City back then were fueled by crime, but many members joined primarily for the sake of the fringe benefits - access to the forbidden pleasures of drink, drugs and sex. And then, as ever since, young toughs also had an eye to fashion. For example, the Parisian hoodlums of that era - known as Apaches - wore silk foulards and, writes Savage, "an air of bourgeois hauteur." In England's inner cities, where there were regular pitched battles between...
...Gordon was the last Cabinet colleague you'd have thought of suggesting a drink with," says Baroness Morris of Yardley, who worked alongside Brown when she was Secretary of State for Education and Skills. Bob Geldof, the musician and Live Aid activist, developed a close relationship with Brown while lobbying him on Africa. Yet he, too, sees limits to their camaraderie. "Would it be easy to spend a night in a bar with him?" asks Geldof. "No, he'd get bored. Not with you, but with that chitchat level." Even Brown's inner circle frets about the friendliness-factor issue...
...made the family unusual in tony Bloomfield Hills, though Mitt doesn't remember anything that felt like ostracism at his élite prep school, Cranbrook. (Then again, he was the Governor's son.) "My faith was not a burden to me. I didn't smoke and I didn't drink, and that was about it" in distinguishing him from his classmates socially, he says. "I think it's a helpful thing for the development of the character of a young person to be different from their peers. It's a blessing to be different and stand up for that...
...willing to pay the admission fees necessary to sustain it. When two little-known Scandavian bands recently played in Jakarta, the kids were willing to shell out $40 for the show, while a gig with five local bands would struggle to charge $5, even with a free drink. "The kids have to realize that the scene will only survive as long as they support it," adds Keke. "The bands may be local but that doesn't mean they're not as good as foreign acts...