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By CHRIS FARAONE  |  May 24, 2010

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Like many troubled geniuses before him, Guru has a relatively wholesome family life, which he rebels against as a student at Noble & Greenough in Dedham, and later at Cohasset High School, Morehouse College in Atlanta, and ultimately as a hip-hop artist. His brother, Harry Jr. (pictured above on Cape Cod with Guru and their father, The Honorable Harry J. Sr.), a drama professor at Stanford University, recently honored Guru in a Boston Globe column. 

READ:Guru's Guru, How a mysterious Svengali dominated Guru's final days. By Chris Faraone

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