Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make that happen, Assad seems in more of a hurry to make a deal to regain the Golan Heights from Israel than he was in 1996, when four-plus years of talks abruptly broke off. "He wants to turn to a new page in Syrian history," says a former Assad adviser. "He wants Bashar to have a fresh start...
Twenty years later, though, the former counterculturalist has, like much of his generation, embraced traditional domestic pleasures. He's happily married and the devoted father of four, including the now college-age Lisa. He has befriended his biological sister, writer Mona Simpson (who wrote him into her novel A Regular Guy) and made contact with his birth mother. It's hard not to be charmed by the sheer joy Jobs derives from talking, mostly off the record, about his family: how his youngest daughter just started waving him off to work; how he won't let his kids watch...
...swiftly slashed back to four product lines--a laptop and desktop for consumers, and a laptop and desktop for professional users--ordered his design team to make Macs look hot again, and set about unclogging the foundering company's executive arteries by replacing, according to Apple board member and former DuPont chairman Edgar Woolard Jr., "about 75% of the management team...
...tearing up a rare Woody marionette, one of at least 200 toys, dolls and action figures stuffed into his tiny office. Down the hall past the "Batcave," their boss was recently spotted interviewing CFO candidates while dressed in shorts, his shoeless feet propped up on the desk. Soon a former circus juggler will be leading visitors through a sculpting class in the Annex, where they will come across the newly hired CFO on her lunch hour. She is slapping clay on a wire figure while studying a live, totally nude model...
This season the networks have given us lots of prostitutes, but how realistic are they? We asked Norma Jean Almodovar, a former L.A. traffic officer turned call girl, who is founder of the International Sex Worker Foundation for Art, Culture and Education. Here's what she thought...