"You're doing something important for the family, " he told me one day when I asked him if he thought it was strange that I hadn't met Neva's teacher.

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And the batter was Frank Venezia, who was slapping line drives all over the lot (and laughing at Ciccio, who usually got him out with five pitches)...that was one reason Frank would remember the day -- he never thought he was that good with the bat.

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My teacher was a deeply tanned fellow named Aryeh, who told me he one day hoped to compete for the Israeli Olympic team. (I thought of him four years later, when Gal Fridman's Athens windsurfing victory landed Israel its first-ever Olympic gold).

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When his first flight was delayed, Drake thought he would miss his connecting flight to Lubbock, the last one of the day.

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He is thought to harbour leadership ambitions, and if so must have his eye on a fight one day with Mr Osborne, currently his most likely rival.

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