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Michael Leahy |
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Michael Leahy is an author and award-winning writer for The Washington Post and The Washington Post Magazine. He is best known for his second book, When Nothing Else Matters, which chronicles basketball superstar Michael Jordan's last comeback to the NBA. Leahy's stories have also been selected for the 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004 editions of The Best American Sports Writing anthologies. His first book, Hard Lessons, follows the lives of six Beverly Hills High School students, class of 1986, and deals with the challenges and anxieties of teenage life in modern America.
Leahy was born in Newark, New Jersey. At age 10, he moved with his family to a suburb of Los Angeles, California. He is a graduate of Yale University.
A highly regarded feature writer known for his intimate portraits of subjects, Leahy explores everything from social issues to sports. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and his work has appeared in Playboy Magazine and Sports...... (Read more on Wikipedia)
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George and Mitt Romney: Like father, like son, until a political parting point - — View Photo Gallery — The GOP presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts governor's family has deep political roots. Romney's father, George, was the former governor of Michigan and served … |
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119 days ago |
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The Washington Post Profiles R. Creigh Deeds - — Creigh Deeds was stammering, as is often his way when trying to explain a change in one of his political positions. He indicated that he felt conflicted over a stance, not the first time during his campaign for Virginia governor. |
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347 days ago |
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Back Home in Alaska, Palin Faces Scrutiny and Second-Guessing From All Sides - — Scrutiny Has Been Intense Since Election — JUNEAU, Alaska — A couple of weeks before the Alaska legislature began this year's session, a bipartisan group of state senators on a retreat a few hours from here invited Gov. Sarah Palin to join them. |
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349 days ago |
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'Right America': Filmmaker Uses A Distorting Lens - — The modern American political documentary, which can serve as a delicious magnifying glass on human behavior and attitudes, has two basic approaches. The first has value. In the hands of a documentarian committed to bringing … |
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