With my friend Peter Slevin, the Chicago-based correspondent for the Washington Post, I set out for the far South Side of Chicago, where Obama spent three years in the late eighties, following in the footsteps of Saul Alinsky and working as a community organizer.
As a teenager, Cox expected to follow in her father's footsteps and work at the local toothpaste factory, but she excelled at school and won a place at the prestigious University of Cambridge.
One wonders if the current chair of the Monitoring Group, a former World Bank official based in Nairobi, is following in the footsteps of his Bank predecessors and working to undermine financial self-sufficiency that would make Somalia less dependent on international financial institutions.
Though she studied architecture for two years at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (until the math requirements "defeated me"), she eventually followed in the footsteps of her father, Seyni Loum, and worked in Paris as a corporate lawyer.
In the course of the film, we see him grow into a young man, one who after college tries to follow in his mother's footsteps by working on Wall Street.
I fantasized that I had some of their DNA in me -- Selden Gile died a year after I was born -- and it was appropriate for me to follow in their footsteps working so diligently in the open air.
He was set to follow in his Father's footsteps, working for daily wages struggling to survive.
And it's the reason why most American Muslims are not following in Omar Mateen's footsteps but are working tirelessly to prevent future Orlandos.
Studied at Yale, where he reportedly drove a Porsche, and followed in his father's footsteps to work at Goldman Sachs, where his stake was worth a reported $46m when he left in 2002.
In addition, "I hope maybe both of them follow in Diana's footsteps and do charity work or something meaningful and it's not just a title," Mrs. Papcun said.
