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...self-described guru of snooze, Laura B. Zukerman '99, explains the fundamentals of her approach: "In Science B-29 freshman year, I fell asleep on the floor of the Science Center every day," Zukerman says. "I would drag myself to class, but end up on the floor after about 10 minutes every lecture. The only time I encountered a problem was when my father surprised me with a visit one day, and found me snoring in the back of the lecture hall...
DIED. ROBERT TOWNSEND, 77, business guru whose best-selling Up the Organization detailed how he jump-started Avis' flagging car rentals; in the West Indies. So what was his secret? One, revealed in his 97-chapter treatise, was to serve big lunches before board meetings...
BAGHDAD: "There's going to be a war" ? the prediction of former Clinton campaign guru James Carville Sunday. He meant, of course, a war in Washington to protect Clinton's political reputation. But for Iraqis, who fear the other kind, the solution to the Lewinsky crisis could not have been put more succinctly...
Americans are eating this premise up. And their unlikely guru is Barry Sears, a 6-ft. 5-in., 215-lb. Marblehead, Mass., biochemist who toiled in the labs at the University of Virginia and M.I.T., describes himself as a "pointy-headed scientist," and says things like "I consider myself a messenger. The Zone is my message." Sears' 1995 book, The Zone, has 1.5 million copies in print and has been translated into 14 languages; Sears' second book, Mastering the Zone, spent 11 weeks on the best-seller list. Last month he published Zone Perfect Meals in Minutes (ReganBooks; $21), which...
RELEASED. IRA EINHORN, 57, a.k.a. the Unicorn, elusive hippie guru convicted in absentia of a 1977 Philadelphia slaying; by a French court that rejected a U.S. extradition request; in Bordeaux. French police finally netted the Unicorn last June, but the three-judge panel set him free on a technicality: French law, unlike that of the U.S., automatically grants retrials to suspects convicted in absentia...