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Other fun Faroese trivia: the Islands has no legal drinking age. “I have a natural relationship with alcohol,” Mikkelsen acknowledges. Luckily, he is 21, and conducts himself age-appropriately. The three-year age gap between him and the majority of the freshman class is due to the 13-grade Faroe Islands education system, which enrolls seven-year-old first-graders, and to the year off Mikkelsen took in order to survey the electorate, perform political analyses and take courses at the University of Copenhagen. Despite his interest in politics, he intends to concentrate...
...Maloney hoped to gain from concerns about corporate greed when local hardware company Stanley Works considered reincorporating in Bermuda to reduce taxes. He sponsored a bill to end the practice. Johnson countered with one that would put a three-year moratorium on such moves. Johnson's g.o.p. colleagues on the Ways and Means Committee then tried to block Maloney from testifying for his bill...
...Three coed Quad Houses were born and some 10 to 20 percent of the freshman class has lived in them for each of the past four years. But this year, the Quad Houses will join the other nine residential Houses as three-year residences...
...Hamilton College in upstate New York, he joined the Navy, where he gained his first merchandising experience as a supply officer during the Vietnam War. He made his mark at P&G overseeing the successful launch of Liquid Tide in 1984, and made an even bigger impression during his three-year stint in Asia in the mid-'90s, building the company's now booming business in China almost from the ground up and resuscitating its faltering cosmetics business in Japan...
...left his parents and three sisters for Fort McClellan, Ala. There he fell in love with a college student named La Donia Miller, the woman who would become his wife. Despite his dad's warnings, he also fell in love with the idea of becoming a warrior. A three-year stint in Germany--tagging along on road marches, soaking up the camaraderie of Desert Storm veterans--led him to re-enlist. While in Europe, he spent six months in Bosnia. Suddenly the supply guy "was in full battle rattle, doing patrols," he says. "I loved being out there with them...