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Actress Gwyneth Paltrow. Parents: Actress Blythe Danner and director Bruce Paltrow
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Jeremy Lin currently plays for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets. He unexpectedly led a winning turnaround with the New York Knicks in 2012, which generated a global craze known as "Linsanity". Lin grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and earned Northern California Player of the Year honors as a senior in high school. After receiving no athletic scholarship offers, he attended Harvard University, where he was a three-time All-Conference player in the Ivy League.
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Ryan Fitzpatrick quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the seventh round of the 2005 NFL Draft and has also played for the Cincinnati Bengals, Buffalo Bills, Tennessee Titans, Houston Texans, and New York Jets. Fitzpatrick played college football at Harvard and was the first quarterback in school history to rush for over 1,000 yards in a career. Fitzpatrick recorded a 48 on the Woderlic test in nine minutes, While his actual score is unknown, he has acknowledged that he left at least one question blank. As the Wonderlic score is the number of correct answers to 50 questions, the best he could have scored would be a 49. To date, Fitzpatrick has the highest Wonderlic Test score ever achieved among NFL quarterbacks.
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Myron Rolle is a former football safety. He was drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the sixth round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He played college football at Florida State. He attended the Florida State University College of Medicine and is currently a neurosurgery resident at Harvard/Massachusetts General Hospital. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and studied at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University for the 2009–10 academic year in order to earn an MSc in Medical Anthropology. In 2010, he was chosen as the second-smartest athlete in sports by the Sporting News, behind baseball player Craig Breslow.
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Sid Luckman was a quarterback for the Chicago Bears from 1939 through 1950. During his twelve seasons with the Bears he led them to four NFL championships. He played both baseball and football for Erasmus Hall High School, with his football skills impressing recruiters from about 40 colleges. Luckman chose Columbia University after meeting Lions coach Lou Little during a Columbia/Navy game at the university's Baker Field athletic facility. Luckman was not admitted to Columbia College; instead, he attended the New College for the Education of Teachers, an undergraduate school, which was within Teachers College at Columbia. He competed on the football team from 1936 until the New College closed in 1939, when he transferred to Columbia College. At Columbia Luckman was a member of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. He completed 180 of 376 passes for 2,413 yards and 20 touchdowns and finished third in the 1938 Heisman Trophy voting, behind Davey O'Brien and Marshall Goldberg. Luckman was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1965, and in 1988 he was declared a joint winner of the Walter Camp Distinguished American Award.
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Michael Doleac was selected 12th overall in the 1998 NBA draft by the Orlando Magic. Doleac retired after a ten-year NBA career after the 2007–2008 NBA season. In 2009, Doleac became a graduate manager for the University of Utah men's basketball team. At Utah, he will also pursue his goal of becoming a doctor. Currently, Doleac teaches physics, and coaches the men's varsity basketball team, at Park City High School in Park City, Utah
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Illustration of Donald Trump by Paul Tong/Tribune Content Agency
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Pro-life advocate Kristan Hawkins - shown with the sign in the center of the group - is president of Students for Life, and will tour college campuses to speak out against views of "aging feminists." (Students for Life)
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Pro-life advocate Kristan Hawkins - shown with the sign in the center of the group- is president of Students for Life, and will tour college campuses to speak out against views of "aging feminists." (Students for Life)
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Pro-life advocate Kristan Hawkins - shown with the sign in the center of the group- is president of Students for Life, and will tour college campuses to speak out against views of "aging feminists." (Students for Life)
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Moore Elementary School in Brentwood, Pa., is investigating a teacher after she posted on Facebook that she was going shopping for a gun. (KDKA)
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University of Oregon President Michael H. Schill issued an op-ed Monday defending free speech and criticizing the student protesters who shut down his state-of-the-university speech earlier this month. (YouTube/@The Oregonian)
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Men or women, who has it easier in the U.S. A new poll has the answers. (Image from Associated Press)
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President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, participate in a Victory 2004 rally at Alamogordo High School in New Mexico on Oct. 24, 2004. (The Washington Times)
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Melissa Manchester. (Dave Kapp)
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Illustration on Mitch McConnell by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Boyden Elementary School in Walpole, Massachusetts, is reportedly scrapping its annual Halloween costume parade this year in favor of "Black and Orange" spirit day in an effort to make the Oct. 31 holiday more inclusive for all students. (WBZ)
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Teaching the Birds and Bees at School Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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"Depriving any student of higher education opportunities should not be done lightly, or out of fear of losing state or federal funding," California Gov. Jerry Brown said in vetoing a bill to codify into state law federal sexual assault guidance on campuses. (Associated Press)
