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Grubman was a math whiz in high school and was a member of the debate team, marching band and National Honor Society. He listened to heavy metal and at parties would rip phone books in half to impress the girls. Proud of his father's brief boxing career, he would often cock his arm and make ready to land a punch on your jaw, says a former classmate, Jacob Zamansky. Grubman's first job was in strategic planning at AT&T. He later became an analyst at PaineWebber but made his name at Salomon pounding the table for WorldCom...
Sometimes in the sanctity of a brief moment, an idea—germinating, grasping—hatches, and we seem to see the world several shades more brightly than before. It is these moments that we so seldom stumble upon, in the routine busyness of our lives. How little time we have to think, when there is so much—and always more—we have...
...sure the Yalies probably feel the same way. Though they enjoy the brief feeling of equality that this weekend entails—which, unfortunately, stems in part from Yale’s recent successes in the football game—they must know, deep down, that it’s all but an illusion that we Harvard types are benevolent enough to sustain for mutual amusement...
Claypool himself has clearly spent more time than is healthy with various species of bass guitar, taking great pleasure in the slinky swoops on a fretless upright before demolishing a bow in a brief three-minute solo. His signature fat, swampy bass sound gives way under his fantastically intricate pluckings, strummings and slappings to raucous lead guitar riffs that leave the actual guitar almost redundantly backgrounded...
...Officers were sent to Greenough Hall on a report that a suspicious person entered the building. After a brief investigation, the officers learned that the person was authorized to be in the building...