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Cuban has usually managed to get to the economics ever since his boyhood in Mount Lebanon, Pa., a Pittsburgh suburb, where his father was a car upholsterer. An avid basketball player, Cuban wanted a fancy pair of Puma sneakers, but his dad wouldn't pay. So Cuban, then 12, sold garbage bags door to door to raise the cash. He was a box boy at the local grocer and worked the meat slicer at a deli and at the canteen at a summer camp. To pay his way through Indiana University, he gave disco-dancing lessons, rented the Bloomington National...
...parents. Not surprisingly, Krinsky says both her parents were initially reluctant to embrace the idea of their daughter acting as the sexual Anne Sullivan to her fellow students’ Helen Keller—challenged, awkward, but eager to learn nevertheless. In her parents’ defense, Ma and Pa Krinsky first learned of the column over Thanksgiving, a time normally reserved for expressing appreciation for such gifts as having enough food to eat and not suffering from any terminal illnesses, not for your daughter’s wealth of sexual insights...
...choosing whether or not to read the column for himself. In fact, several of his daughter’s pieces have reached him via e-mail as they traversed the list-serves of his New York investment bank. Though not yet privy to her entire body of work, Pa Krinsky has been able to decipher a light at the end of the tunnel with regard to his daughter’s writing prowess. “He thinks I’m a good writer,” Krinsky beams, “he thinks I should I write...
While Israel faced harsh criticism for its policies that punished the entire Palestinian population in the aftermath of the most recent attacks, the most severe condemnation has only now emerged, when the PA, the political structure, is being destroyed. The terrorists cannot be allowed to strike with impunity; Israel must be allowed to hit back at those responsible...
...facts indict Arafat and the PA; the international protection afforded to the Palestinian political establishment is misplaced and deeply troubling. How does Arafat benefit the future of his people or the future of Israel? Arafat must go before peace is possible...