Ballmer abides this bit of insurrection and seems to have a soft spot for the farm boy.

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Although we lived in the city, my father never let go of his youth as an Irish farm boy.

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Himself, a farm boy, he was haunted by the imaged of a farm family sitting down to lunch and his bomber raining death from the sky on them.

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Not bad for a poor farm boy from Idaho.

ECONOMIST: Edwin P. Wilson

In childhood he was told by his father, Manuel, the story of the 20-year-old, dirt-poor farm boy named George Washington Perry who caught a 22.3 pound bass in Georgia in 1932, establishing the current record.

FORBES: Forbidden Bass

In March, a month after becoming Caterpillar's chief executive, the 60-year-old farm boy from Alton, Missouri, stood up in front of 150 financial analysts at a Las Vegas trade show and promised that profits in 1999 would be off no more than 15%.

FORBES: Sharpening the claws

One of the riflemen in my platoon, a big muscular farm boy from South Dakota, had seen, strewn on the Tarawa beachhead, a string of guts twelve feet long belonging to the marine who, only seconds before the mortar blast, had been his best buddy.

NEWYORKER: Rat Beach

It is hard for me to believe that a shy country boy who grew up on a family farm in central Montana is heading to Washington, D.

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Britney: Boy, I needed a break from the cube farm.

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Officers have said the latest victim, a 16-year-old boy shot in the back in Thricknells Close, Marsh Farm, on Sunday, may never walk again.

BBC: Armed officers in Marsh Farm, Luton