Peyton Manning quarterbacked the Indianapolis Colts to a 29-17 win over the Chicago Bears in the Super Bowl of 2007. Manning entered the National Football League when he was chosen by the Colts as ... more

Willie Brown was the colorful and powerful mayor of San Francisco from 1996 to 2004. The job capped a political career which included 31 years for ... more

Tavis Smiley started hosting the late-night TV talk show Tavis Smiley on PBS in 2003, and the daily public radio show The Tavis Smiley Show on PRI ... more

Democrat Chris Dodd has been a United States senator from Connecticut since 1981. The son of Thomas J. Dodd, a U.S. senator throughout the 1960s, young Dodd served two years in the Peace Corps after ... more

Patricia Highsmith's first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950) was made into a successful film by Alfred Hitchcock. Still, Highsmith is more famous for her ... more