Word: founder
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...from Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream. Most important, the non-profit Street News has a highly motivated, 50-member sales staff: homeless people who work strictly on commission. To apply for the job, "you don't even need clean clothes," says SN editor Hutchinson Persons, a rock musician and founder of a coalition to help the homeless...
About one matter there was no dispute: three terrorist leaders were shot dead last week in the suburbs of Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo. Government security forces killed Rohana Wijeweera, 46, fugitive founder of the terrorist Sinhalese People's Liberation Front (J.V.P.), as well as two other J.V.P. officials...
...more diversity of styles, the better. Still, when the youngsters get confused or the designers founder, the style that always seems to endure and prosper is Amekaji, as the kids call American casual. Says Tomohiro Ando, sales manager of Octopus Army: "American design remains the base. Amekaji is always such a comfortable and functional look." The labels of Octopus Army shirts thoughtfully proclaim those virtues in the fractured English beloved by Japanese teens: "Best in the field of Spangled Stars, Americanized as hell as well as originality." Exactly how that translates is not important; it's the feeling and verve...
Emmett Watson, a curmudgeonly columnist for the Seattle Times, has conducted an anti-California crusade for years. MOUNT THE RAMPARTS! FIGHT CALIFORNICATION! exhorts the headline of a recent Watson tirade. The columnist is the founder of Lesser Seattle, an antibooster organization that seeks to "keep the bastards out" by exaggerating the city's negative characteristics, such as its notorious rainfall. The organization's slogan: "Have a Nice Day -- Somewhere Else!" Watson insists that his crusade is tongue in cheek, but many newly arrived Californians take less satirical slurs to heart. "Our very first day the Welcome Wagon lady called...
...subsidize homosexuality. Officials replied that they were trying to provide an education for young people who might otherwise be denied one. The school does not seek to reinforce homosexuality, although it stresses the solidarity of minorities and the contributions of gay role models. Says A. Damien Martin, co-founder of the institute: "At first most help came from straight professionals, because the gay and lesbian community was afraid that if they reached out to the young they would be considered child molesters. The greatest fear of a gay person is that they will be considered a perverter of youth...