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Breeze’s need for speed and fascination with transportation was in his DNA. His father was an auto racer and a machinist who worked on sports cars. When he closed his business, he moved the shop equipment into his garage, where Joe learned to use it. His father was also a cycling enthusiast, who rode his European road bike for transportation, a rare sight in the 1950s and ’60s. … [Read more...] about How mountain biking’s mega-success started on Mount Tamalpais

Yet Trump and Kushner have more in common than surface appearances might suggest. They are both bridge-and-tunnel guys — Trump is from Queens, Kushner from Livingston, New Jersey — who made their names in Manhattan and lived through tumultuous periods of tabloid fire and financial adversity. As a developer, Trump took big risks in the 1980s and faced bankruptcy in the 1990s; Kushner took big risks before the 2008 financial crash and flirted with losing his family’s flagship building, 666 Fifth Avenue. Both came back. Kushner is often called “soft-spoken,” in contrast to his bombastic father-in-law, but people who have worked with him say that’s deceiving: His voice is just literally soft. His opinions are anything but deferential. “He’s very aggressive,” says Zelnick, who says that once Kushner makes up his mind, “it may look like he’s barreling down a path.” Above all, he and Trump share a clannish outlook on … [Read more...] about Jared Kushner’s Rise to Unimaginable Power

Boston has a long history of watching its star athletes leave, dating back at least as far as the Red Sox's sale of Babe Ruth to the rival Yankees in 1919. Ruth went on to win four World Series in New York; the Yankees won 26 before the Red Sox won it all again, snapping an 86-year drought in 2004. … [Read more...] about ‘No Hard Feelings’: Patriots fans still rooting for Brady