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It was the schoolboy Putin too who first conceived of a career in the KGB. Tamara Stelmakova, now 70, still teaches at School 281, the secondary school specializing in chemistry that Volodya attended at 14. She remembers an ordinary boy who stood out mainly for his "beautiful" reports on "political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spy Who Came In From The Crowd | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

One of my heroes has always been Dr. Frankenstein," says an interviewee in Errol Morris' First Person (Bravo, Wednesdays, 10:30 p.m. E.T.)--Saul Kent, a mild-mannered cryonics buff who lovingly had his dead mother's severed head frozen. "I just think he's been misunderstood." In a way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Eyes Have It | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

Jones, who lives in the high desert northeast of town, goes into that closet a mild-mannered secretary and comes out Krazy K.C., Wild Man from the Desert Sand, with a ponytail, Gestapo boots, combat fatigues and Harley suspenders. And why this particular getup? "You go with what you know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So You Wanna Wrestle On TV? | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

That would be, for instance, Kevin Clarke, a mild-mannered carpet salesman from Mentor, Ohio, and a loyal Wal-Mart customer, who went ballistic after his son bought a CD by a band named Godsmack that he thought God-awful, particularly a ditty called Voodoo, which seemed to be about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrestling With Your Conscience | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

As television's best-known shrinks, BOB NEWHART and KELSEY GRAMMER have treated their fair share of eccentrics. Now that the two have joined practices for a movie, they are playing somewhat neurotic characters themselves. In the upcoming Showtime film How Doc Waddems Finally Broke a 100, Newhart plays golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 15, 1999 | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

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