Word: customs
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Gianni Versace did not make his legend by aping the behavior of others. Yet there was one custom of his peers he might have done better to observe. "Such a high-profile guy," says Bo Dietl, head of a large New York detective agency. "He had to be crazy not to have security." One of Dietl's colleagues disagrees. "What could Versace have done differently?" asks Anthony Pellicano, a Los Angeles security consultant. "I'll tell you what. Nothing. Zero. If someone has the wherewithal, the time, the motivation and the skills to kill you, you are probably dead...
...eyes are the windows of the soul, it seems there are more and more strange souls out there. Custom-designed soft contact lenses have made irises the latest accessory. "It's a statement," says California optometrist Richard Silver, who designed Schwarzenegger's cool orbs for Batman & Robin. ("These make the Terminator look like a baby sitter," Arnold boasted.) The painted lenses are costly ($800 and up), must be professionally prescribed and fitted, and are not readily available because of FDA restrictions...
...Nibbling at the edges of the periods and transforming them into extra instructional days seems to me a violation of a useful and long accepted custom in our faculty," Gomes writes...
...prejudice. Air Force defenders point out that the branch's statistics on adultery courts-martial betray little sexual bias, reflecting almost exactly the male-to-female ratio of the force. But observers contend that women, once investigated, draw harsher noncriminal penalties. According to one seasoned pilot (in a custom dubbed by others "different spanks for different ranks"), the "higher the person who commits the offense, the less happens to him." Critics cite the cases of Rear Admiral Ralph Tindal, who in 1995 was fined, demoted and confined to quarters for 30 days after an affair with a petty officer...
Herrell's tends to be less understanding about the bag issue than Scoops. The staff is pleasant, but some staffers are more customer service oriented than others; one woman had me bag my own purchase. That only happened once, though, and certainly does not detract from the fare. Their hot fudge is drool worthy. The frozen yogurt selection is definitely less extensive than Scoops and Beans'. However, cookies and cream is incredible and superior to Scoops'. Thinking about Herrell's cookies and cream motivates me to bundle up on a chilly night and proceed with my custom...