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During the summer, Lewis worked as a copy-boy at the Times, and after graduation he took a full-time job there. Except for a brief stint at the Washington Daily News from 1952 to 1955, where he distinguished himself reporting on the Navy's Loyalty Security Program, Lewis has worked for the Times all his life...
...after an eight-year stint as senior tutor, Gill and his wife Elizabeth were moving into the master's residence at Leverett House...
...first three years, might be the kind of Mercedes executive who can bridge that gap and make this marriage work. A former apprentice mechanic, he arrived in Stuttgart in 1987 and made--and later unmade--an ill-fated deal with Dutch aerospace firm Fokker. He also did a stint at a Daimler division in Cleveland, Ohio. When Daimler fell deep in the red in the mid-'90s, he embarked on a series of American-style cost-cutting programs that reduced the work force by some 20,000 and the number of operating businesses from 35 to 23, earning himself...
Levine, a onetime martial-arts student, imported Krav Maga to the West Coast in 1981, following a stint in Israel, where he learned from grand master Imi Lichtenfeld, the late creator of Krav Maga. Back home, Levine began teaching the system to a handful of Los Angeles students while he attended law school. When he opened his training center last year, he had an instant hit on his hands. Membership has shot past 1,000, and another branch is planned...
Fair enough. Anybody who follows the news knows all about the actor's longtime battle with drugs and his myriad legal wrangles. The son of heralded underground director Robert Downey (Putney Swope), he got small movie roles until a season-long stint on Saturday Night Live served as a springboard into "brat-pack" films in the mid-'80s. The brilliance he displayed in such roles as the druggy Gen-Xer in 1987's Less Than Zero and later in his portrayal of Charlie Chaplin deepened the tragedy as he began spiraling down into a cycle of drug arrests, jail sentences...