She plans on becoming both a middle school English teacher and a community organizer in her neighborhood, the Mission District.

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The night ended with both men yelling at each other "like middle-school girls" in the driveway, Andy recalls.

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Born on October 25, 1944 into a rural family where both parents were schoolteachers, Mr. Ren spent his primary and middle school years in a remote mountainous town in Guizhou Province, and studied at Chongqing Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture, where he graduated in 1963.

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Both grew up on Long Island and wrote about stock markets, Mr. Niederauer in a middle-school paper and Mr. Greifeld in a graduate-school thesis at New York University.

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