Meet Hillary Clinton: Named after Sir Edmund Hillary even though she was born a year before he climbed Everest, canny investor who turned $1,000 into $100,000 trading cattle futures, combat veteran who barely survived sniper fire, tried to join the Marines but was rejected—“You’re old, you can’t see, and you’re a woman… go join the Army.”—and turned down by NASA when she wanted to be an astronaut. Let’s face it: Granny is a very impressive fictional character.
