Michael Reagan, eldest son of President Ronald Reagan, political commentator, author, radio host of 26 years, and holder of five powerboat racing world records, said
Hand carved wooden buttons, a hat with the perfect amount of crease, a tie of just the right width—every visual detail in a great film
Dennis Quaid is drawn to projects that strike fear on first encounter. “You take that fear and you channel it, and you use it. Then
Standing at 5 feet, 10 inches and some 270 pounds with his famous 24-inch biceps, chef Andre Rush is used to drawing looks. But these
Li Fan, an expert in baroque and early music, recently returned to playing the modern violin. It was a bigger adjustment than she expected, especially
Chuck Masek is known as the man who spearheaded the billion-dollar industry of reprocessing single-use medical devices, but when he started out in the medical
Martha Boneta grew up with a dream of becoming a farmer. When she was a young girl, she would follow along as her grandmother tended
Joe Beam gave a talk recently in Texas; afterward, a family came up to greet him, their young daughter shyly offering up her comments as
Growing up, the only person Charles Mizrahi knew on Wall Street was an uncle who waited tables in the New York Stock Exchange dining room.
There was a gang member who had been in prison all his life, who said he’d never once cried in all his years. He’d buried
Parting from his wife and two sons was the hardest thing Tiberiu Czentye had ever done—harder than the upcoming 40-mile trek that would end with
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