Word: benjamin
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...record or go to a concert. I learned to love music. Even more important, I learned that--no matter how much or how little talent one has--one can steadily improve by working regularly at something. Now every day I sit slightly behind my 13-year-old son Benjamin while he practices piano, hoping he will love music throughout his life and learn the value of systematic honing of one's skills...
Four and a half years ago, Benjamin V.A. Pettigrew '99 banded together with four siblings and an old friend to buy and old office building in Dallas. Two years later, his firm, Oaksbranch Investments, L.C., sold the building for an 80 percent profit...
...with rough-and-ready bits of Christianity. In 1997 a group of them settled in Garland, Texas, to await the end, dressed in white outfits, including white cowboy hats. "What all these movements have in common is the belief that the world is on its last legs," says Marina Benjamin, author of Living at the End of the World. "It's crumbling, demonic, demented...
...authors of the study are Benjamin P. Sachs, chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology: Fredric D. Frigoletto Jr., chief of obstetrics at Masschusetts General Hospital and Green professor of obstretrics and gynecology; Mary B. Ames Castro, a doctor at MGH and instructor in obstetric, gynecology and reproductive biology, and Cindy Kobelin, a doctor at Beth Israel...
...know you're in trouble when the person who gave you your initial political break 17 years ago suddenly decides to run against you. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu learned that harsh fact on Monday when former defense minister Moshe Arens, the man who appointed Netanyahu to the No. 2 spot at the Israeli embassy in Washington in 1982, announced he would challenge Netanyahu for the Likud party leadership. "There appears to be a growing consensus within the party," says TIME world editor Joshua Cooper Ramo, "that members may not want to bet all their cards on Bibi...