Sublime

batter,”

But one does not spend a football Saturday taking half measures.

From the moment he had started on the project and begun to observe Sam from afar, Ian had found the same thought often crossing his mind: how shockingly just like he’d been in high school Sam still was. When the oddball in your high school class became one of the richest people in the world, you sort of assumed the oddball must have changed. Sam ha

nonessential worker. This was a new category in our economic organization. Writers, architects, accountants, managers, lawyers, bankers, programmers, professors, U.S. senators: nonessential. Highly educated and rewarded, but not the most important people in a crisis. Sixty percent of college graduates were able to work from home, compared with just

His intelligence and imagination were clear. But when you got to know him, what stood out was his ambition.

Jim Deatherage,

Baldwin

ecstatic.

I left my car at work, ran to my apartment, did some push-ups, weighed myself, ran six miles around Poughkeepsie, came back home, locked the bedroom door, did more push-ups, said prayers, got in bed, and accepted no matter how much weight I lost, small, smart white boys would always have the power to make big black boys force them into buying our l