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...yearbook. Insisted on going by "August" because Benjamin sounded too Jewish, and told the cops once to call him "Erwin Rommel." Distributed racist and anti-Semitic literature at home and at school, had a girlfriend who does not remember him fondly. Scary? Sure. But he could have been on "Seinfeld," too. As a malcontent, Smith was little more than a caricature ?- until he set out in his light blue Ford last week for the places where the ones he hated lived, with two guns and plenty of bullets. Until then, not many people would have called him special...
...requests in the ritzy Hamptons this year that it had to rent a summer house to accommodate all the tutors. "It's getting pretty grim out there," says Dave Berry, president of College Prep Services, Inc. "Colleges want to see that high school students aren't sitting around watching Seinfeld reruns all summer...
That's harder than it sounds. After all, when Seinfeld went off the air, NBC couldn't run a test pattern, and by the way, now that Michael Jordan has retired, how are the Chicago Bulls doing? Summers, currently the Deputy Secretary, is following a similarly tough act. Robert Rubin, perhaps the most popular Treasury Secretary in the postwar era, redefined that Cabinet post from discreet adviser and signatory of our currency to a sort of global emissary and projection of American geopolitical clout as it is expressed now--not in warheads or throw weights but in loan guarantees...
...LONG, LOSERS Rare is the television star who heeds Kenny Rogers' "know when to fold 'em" rule. Jerry Seinfeld, who signed off this time last year to much fanfare, was the exception. Those shuffling off the screen this year are being pushed by precipitous ratings drops. Was it a change in the zeitgeist? The fact that they had enough episodes for syndication (all had more than 100)? Or did each, like Rhoda, make a fatal flub...
...past five years, Adelson and fellow ESPP Lecturer Dan L. Perlman have taught their junior seminar, ESPP 90ehf, "Conservation Biology and Biodiversity," to tie together the disparate strands of the interdisciplinary degree program--and make sure students are as familiar with a sycamore as with Seinfeld...