Myhrvold is of Nordic extraction, and he looks every bit the bearded, fair-haired Viking not so much the tall, ferocious kind who raped and pillaged as the impish, roly-poly kind who stayed home by the fjords trying to turn lead into gold.

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If life in these United States were a role playing game, the lowest difficulty setting would probably be a straight white male who is one standard deviation above mean height. (Unless you are a good enough athlete to get into the NBA being much taller than that is not so good) Tall people have never been denied the right to vote.

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So it was not surprising that he was drawn to a tall, solitary classmate named Sayyid Imam al-Sharif.

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And that makes the next 18 hours or so very scary indeed for homeowners like us surrounded by tall trees, not to mention our friends living by the beach who have all hopefully evacuated by now.

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Ms. SANDERS: Well, Farai, unfortunately, even though I'm rather tall, I've never been very coordinated so I probably am not going to go up against them in a battle.

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