Word: browning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John would not talk about his dead father and uncle; classmates recall only one history class in his Collegiate career when John mentioned the President. If you didn't know who he was, you'd take him for a typical '70s teenager, face obscured by a helmet of longish brown hair, heading to Central Park with his friends to throw a Frisbee or play with a pack of bandanna-wearing dogs. Sometimes he would lose his Secret Service detail, so he could head for the park and hang out freely with his friends; once after doing so, he was mugged...
Still not shining at academics, Kennedy had to repeat a grade at Andover, but when he graduated in 1979 he could attend any school he pleased. Instead of Harvard, he chose Brown University, in Providence, R.I., which was enjoying a popularity boom in part because it had no core-curriculum requirements. Kennedy was beginning to look more like his father and--the tabloid language is irresistible--much more like a hunk. He scarcely seemed to notice the attention he attracted from curious students, and eventually he became a no-big-deal part of the scene. Stripped to the waist...
...public service and his desire for a career in theater or the arts," says Ted Van Dyk, a family friend. Van Dyk ran the Center for Democratic Policy, a liberal think tank in Washington, where Kennedy served an internship during the summer between his sophomore and junior years at Brown. "He had never really been to Washington," says Van Dyk. "He didn't even know where the White House was." Jackie had made a conscious decision to shield him from the capital, and now that he was there, she would call every day to see how he was doing...
...made his home in New York, rather than Boston, and attended Brown University rather than Harvard, which was alma mater to both his father, President John F. Kennedy and his uncle, Edward M. Kennedy...
...attractive. "They?re obviously cashing in on the Internet craze," Kadlec says. "They?ve waited 92 years, and they have no desperate need for the cash. This is just too good an opportunity to pass up." Nobody deserves a little taste of Internet riches more than the men in brown ?- remember, this is a company whose 15 top executives all started out sorting packages, and in which lifetime employment is practiced with an almost Japanese frequency. But don?t be too surprised if the next thing you get from your friendly UPS guy is a postcard from the Riviera...