>"I have a friend who was with George W Bush at Yale," Thompson recalls.
>"Bush branded him with a red-hot coat hanger."
>
>"Why?"
>
>"Some fraternity thing. He still has the scar. (The victim, a respected
>television journalist, later confirms this story. "I couldn't swear
>that George did the branding himself," he tells me, "because he'd made
>me put a pillowcase over my head for eight hours beforehand. But he was
>the one in charge of the ceremony. I was on the front page of Yale
>News.")