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Martin's Greenspan is a better read. A former FORTUNE writer, Martin gives us a real biography, one that winds through Greenspan's geeky youth (band, glee club, math nerd) to his stint as a professional clarinet player and time spent in the inner circle of author Ayn Rand, and then to his advisory role with Presidents Nixon and Ford. Along the way we learn that Greenspan is yet another powerful political figure who was in the room but didn't inhale, and that as a child he was terrified of the movie Frankenstein. We also get plenty of quotable...
After this brief military stint, Bush entered what he has referred to as the "nomadic years" of his life...
...Three regimes: Theodore Medad Pomeroy's stint as Speaker of the U.S. House (one day) plus the combined reigns of English Queen Jane Grey (nine days) and Portugal's Dom Luis III (about 20 minutes...
...loves. Although he found not playing competitively to be very difficult mentally, Causey worked hard both on the court and in the weight room to prepare for this season. Sullivan considers Causey's training and maturation in the off-season to be even more beneficial than his brief stint with...
Clemente grew up and attended high school in Albany, N.Y., where he started all four years for his varsity basketball team. A Larry Bird fan, Clemente said his room at home is filled with all types of Bird memorabilia, from jerseys to posters. After a short stint at St. Thomas More, a prep school in Oakdale, Conn., Clemente came to Cambridge. But the decision wasn't as automatic as some might think...