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This is a magnum opus. Great piece of journalism.
I actually went to school with Mark Leibovich - -Newton South HS Class of '83. We weren't close friends or anything, but I remember him as a really good kid.
Smart guy from a smart town!
PS, he's right on about Larry Bird - - HS kids in Newton would bike around his block (or borrow a parents car) just to catch a glimpse of him mowing the lawn. Sometimes there would be slow moving traffic jams. Bird didn't seem to care. Still did his own damn lawn. He lived right next to door to his agent Bob Woolf and there were no gates or hidden entrances. Just a lawn and the street. Good times.
I had a girlfriend a few years later -- who lived in Newton herself, come to think of it -- who claimed that Bird and Walton used to get high together. Any truth to that?