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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Barak went on to obtain a master's in systems engineering from Stanford University. As is customary when an Israeli goes abroad, he chose a Hebrew replacement for his East European surname, Brog. Barak had the appropriately militaristic meaning of "lightning," but because of a speech defect that turns his r's into w's, he cannot quite pronounce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gruff And Very Tough | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...corps. Fascinated by the ballets of Balanchine, N.Y.C.B.'s founder, he left for New York City and took class with the company. "If I hadn't done that," he says, "I might still be back in London, standing on the side of the stage holding a tray." Instead, ballet master in chief Peter Martins, always on the lookout for promising young male dancers, offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Christopher Wheeldon: Master of His Domain | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...boom, people paid guys to score them coke and hookers. I was in high school at the time, but that's what I gathered from Bret Easton Ellis novels. These days, when name dropping has been replaced by gym dropping ("I was wondering, while I was on the Stair Master..."), rich people are spending their money to keep pleasure away from them. I know a guy who belongs to a gym that charges him extra for not going. And I've got a guy who keeps me from getting the phone numbers of hot, dangerous women. He's called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Wouldn't Eat That if I Were You | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...Yahoo!" said Cabot House Master James H. Ware. "It was really a thriller this year. It's a great thing for Cabot. I love...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cabot Wins Fifth Straight Straus | 5/26/1999 | See Source »

...prodigy. He didn't have a steady teacher, or attend a prestigious music conservatory, or possess the kind of breathtaking technical virtuosity that instantly seduces listeners. "After my 16th birthday, I did not have a teacher," he says. "I only went to two or three master classes. So it was a slower development, but it was my own...I'm used to trying to find things out for myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Back with Beethoven | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

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