At 38, Eric Greitens has lived a full life and then some. A former Navy SEAL in Iraq, Greitens was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on children in crisis areas. He majored in ethics at Duke University, where he...

Young pals likely had no idea. But lanky Jay Feinberg was destined for international glory.Still, try telling that to your grade-school teacher. "I remember getting in trouble because I would spend four or five hours making the cover of my book report,...