1 A.  Derek Jeter's girlfriend, actress Minka Kelly (l.), watches with other Jeter friends and family in the third inning, just before the Captain slugs No. 3,000, a home run into the left-field seats. With a sold-out crowd chanting his name, Derek Jeter looked up into the stands at Yankee Stadium.
Sam Harris is the author of the bestselling books, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, Waking Up, and Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue (with Maajid Nawaz). The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. Dr. Harris's writing has been published in more than 20 languages.
Sam Rayburn was an American politician who was the Speaker of the House, Majority Leader to Congress and Chairman of the National Democratic Convention. Learn more at Biography.com. Sam Rayburn was an American politician best known for his roles as Speaker of the House, Majority Leader to Congress and Chairman of the National Democratic Convention. Synopsis Sam Rayburn was an American politician born on January 6, 1882, in Kingston, Tennessee. After graduating from East Texas Normal College (now Texas A&M University-Commerce) and studying law at University of Texas at Austin, he was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1906 and served from 1907-1913.