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...Brewery, as Anheuser-Busch is known around town, is not technically the biggest firm left standing; that honor goes to industrial conglomerate Emerson Electric. But it is certainly the most famous, an iconic American brand backed by one of the largest advertising budgets on earth. Nearly half of all American beer is brewed by A-B. Every time a radio ad for Bud or Bud Light ends with the words "St. Louis, Missouri," it's a shot in the arm for the hometown, which is why more than 45,000 people, including the mayor of St. Louis and the governor...
Surprises, by their nature, come in disguise, masked sometimes as disappointments or detours when they're in fact dreams turning solid, if you'll just step aside and give them some air. It is actually in the official graduation rule book that someone has to quote Emerson to you, so in case everyone else forgets, I would note his instruction to "mount to paradise/ By the stairway of surprise...
...first things every Harvard freshmen sees when they walk into their room is a list of the most famous alumni who were also housed in that room. From Ralph W. Emerson, class of 1821, to Natalie Portman ’03, these lists are full of people who have been very successful in very different career paths. It’s an opportunity for one to see what others who have been in your shoes have accomplished...
...infamous still, which kept the camp in high spirits. Farewell to the mess tent, the only place in camp that refused to patronize. Farewell to the most recent additions to the cast. To Colonel Potter who saw the war as a Zane Grey western. To Charles Emerson Winchester III, Harvard’s own representative to the 4077th. To B.J. Honnicut, whose quiet manner let him get away with murder. Most of all, farewell to the oldtimers. To the camp fashion consultant, Corporal Klinger. To Father Mulcahey, the perfect priest in the Korean War. To Margaret...
...haunted by his relationship with his father--literally haunted, as Dad may have come back from the dead. Locke (Terry O'Quinn) balances his faith, which gives him a connection to the mystical island, with a lifetime of having been lied to by loved ones. Even villain Ben (Michael Emerson), leader of the cultlike "Others" who inhabit the island, is driven by a twisted sense of morality. "We're the good guys," he's fond of saying, and Lost holds out the possibility that he just might become...