WASHINGTON: Ben Carson soared to the top of the 2016 Republican presidential heap with a compelling personal narrative, but questions about his past and disputes about a military scholarship threaten to disrupt his high-flying campaign.

The retired doctor has riveted audiences for months with vivid descriptions of how he lived a violent adolescence -- including trying to murder a classmate when he was a teenager -- before overcoming his pathological anger to become a world renowned neurosurgeon.

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