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...self-defense teacher for the blind. The honors and citations didn't mean what they once did, as he watched mentors and proteges die in fires. Still, he loved fire fighting. Last Tuesday his company got the call to go to the World Trade Center. Fire fighter Brandon Gill says someone yelled, "Don't go in there, Paddy!" but Brown called back, "Are you nuts? We've got a job to do!" and rushed up the stairs of the north tower with his men, past the engine companies with their hoses, to look for trapped office workers. Said Gill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing The End | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

...play that best summarized Browns second-half futility happened early in the fourth quarter. With Brown down three, Rowley found a wide-open Brandon Buchanan in the endzone, only to watch helplessly as Buchanan dropped the ball...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Football Holds On, Downs Brown 27-20 | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

With the Crimson safely ahead, Head Coach John Kerr began resting some of his players, but the team continued to play well. In the 86th minute, Yale did manage to strike again. Williams scored against junior Brandon Renken, who had replaced Mejias in goal, from around six yards...

Author: By Tamara P. Miller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Men's Soccer Opens With Yale Trouncing | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

Most striking, though, are the relationships that emerge. Hope single mom Jeanette Laws and her family took to senior Irene Bohn, 77, a former nun and schoolteacher, after Bohn began to tutor Laws' son Brandon, now 12. When Brandon first arrived at Hope at age six, he "couldn't hold a pencil, didn't know colors," recalls Laws, who suspects he had been involved in a cult. But Bohn persisted, encouraging him. In the fall Brandon--until now in special ed--will start school in a regular class for the first time. On those rare nights Bohn doesn't come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hope in the Heartland | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

...comfortable with. In June, Disney continued what's shaping up to be a less-than-stellar year by settling a lawsuit brought by Deborah Bynum, who claims she had a brain hemorrhage after a 1998 spin on the "Indiana Jones Adventure" ride at Disneyland. Last September, Brandon Zucker, now 5, suffered severe brain damage when he fell out of the Anaheim park's Roger Rabbit Car Toon Spin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Roller Coasters: Thrills, Chills and Few Spills | 6/26/2001 | See Source »

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