Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While in Seoul, Mok took classes and worked teaching an SAT prep course. During his nine months there, he decided to focus more on his studies, he says...
There were other careers he might have pursued. At George School, the Quaker prep school Ennis attended in Pennsylvania, he was a good singer and actor. In Atlanta he appeared in a local ad for Fila sportswear. Just before his death, he promised Michelle Hood, a fashion-photographer friend in New York City, that he would pose for her. But she says he never thought of modeling as a serious career, only as a way to make a little extra money for school. Apart from sports cars, he did not have his father's passion for the appurtenances of celebrity...
...American banker and a Mexican homemaker, he grew up in Mexico City and played baseball well enough to be drafted by the then Kansas City Athletics after attending a prep school in New England. At his father's insistence, Richardson left baseball behind and chose Tufts University, ending up with a master's degree in international relations. After a three-year stint as an aide on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he moved to New Mexico to run for Congress...
...thought it was an SAT prep thing but it turns out to be UC advertising," he said...
...many ways. "I spent my whole life in the private sector, he in the public," observes Bowles. "Some of my greatest strengths are in organization and structure; he is a freer thinker than I am." Clinton has always been a showboater; Bowles was forever modest. One of his prep-school teachers stuck a note in his school file praising his respectful manners with a prescient metaphor: "When you're in a duck blind with him and he shoots the bird out from under you, he will make you feel like it was your shot at the bird...