As a kid growing up in Connecticut's Fairfield County, he was a theater geek with an asymmetrical skater haircut and a bedroom full of Stephen King and Dean Koontz novels.

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They have done it with a side Fairclough, who led the Bees up from the Conference in 2005, has re-built after losing 13 players in the summer, including the key trio of Dean Sinclair, Nicky Bailey and Simon King.

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Dean said on CNN's "Larry King Live" that if he had been told a year ago that he would be third in Iowa, he would have been pleased.

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"It is difficult for the King to have friends, " says Tongthong Chandrasu, dean of the law faculty at Chulalongkorn University.

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