Ex-receiver now a mortgage lender - 2004-01-05
Vance Johnson says this town is a good place to highlight he is no longer "The Vance" - a swaggering, fortune-squandering celebrity who was fond of full-length fur coats, over-the-top hairdos and an outsize collection of sports cars during his heyday as a wide receiver with the Denver Broncos.

Johnson is banking on his new persona, his name and his orange- and-blue fame to become to home mortgages what former Broncos quarterback John Elway is to Toyotas.
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Balancing family, work: More Americans realize they can't have everything - 2004-01-05
Can we achieve it all? The great career, enough family time, the house, vacations, college savings?

Hassen, 43, was a chronic overachiever with a master's in mechanical engineering and an MBA from Harvard, until his two children came along. Now his wife, Leslie Boyer Hassen, the medical director of the Arizona Poison & Drug Information Center, brings home the mortgage payment while Hassen takes care of the kids, ages 4 and 6.
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