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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bout of panic disorder in a Lathon group. Solotaroff, a journalist, profiles a group that Lathon boasts is the "smartest bunch of people I've ever assembled": Sara, a beautiful former model turned fashion editor crippled in her search for a husband by daddy issues; Rex, a Wall Street jock recovering from an addiction to both coke and a blond-bombshell stripper; Dylan, a rock-'n'-roll sideman and jingle writer in the throes of alcoholism; Jack, a 59-year-old Broadway producer and former big spender suspended from producing for seven years, a plea bargain for embezzling from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Circle of Gilt | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

...raised $2.7 million, just to see if he could, but of course he's mostly cutting his own checks.) On the Democratic side, the faintness of Al Gore's pulse has kept things closer ? the veep has netted only $18.5 million, with $11.5 million riding on the alternative, former jock and senator Bill Bradley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign-Finance Reform vs. Big Bucks: How They'll Play in 2000 | 7/9/1999 | See Source »

...onslaught of awards and SAT scores. The other reason, I suspect, is that many people came here with the same secret purpose as me: to leave that old self behind, and never speak of him or her again. The effete intellectual type here might well have been a jock in high school. The confrontational Crimson reporter was shy and reserved. The campus socialite was a high school misfit...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Defining Your Identity at College | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...Jock: 1. The obnoxious people inyour sections who won't let anyone else get a wordin edgewise. 2. Senators in training...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Linguistics 101: Harvard for Beginners | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...champion at Wimbledon, who changed the way we look at female athletes--and, more important, changed the way they look at one another. "She was a crusader fighting a battle for all of us," said Navratilova. "She was carrying the flag; it was all right to be a jock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 10 Most Influential Athletes Of The Century | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

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