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Corey Johnson, a 29-year-old computer programmer, says he and his friends have a knack for picking the next Internet sensation. If they encounter something good on the Internet, they like to "call" whether or not it's going to take off. They called Garfield Minus Garfield and Lolcats, but when Johnson saw what he considered to be a particularly hilarious clip of someone falling down and then being "played off stage" by a cat with a keyboard, his friends thought it was lame. "I said, this is going to be big." he says. "My friends were like...
...started teaching because I wanted to get better at public speaking,” says Malan, “My junior year of college I ran for the UC, lost miserably, and realized painfully during that process that I had lost or never had a very good knack for public speaking.” Since then, he has worked to improve those skills, and hopes to keep them in use. “I will teach CS 50 for as long as they will let me,” says Malan, “It is what I love...
...even look at the stock if the company it debt-ridden, is losing money, or if sales are lumpy. There's not one IPO in the pipeline with an actual date, even though dozens and dozens of companies are ready." Rosetta Stone squeaked through with good financials and a knack for speaking Wall Street's language. Now let's see if they can keep...
...didn't stay out of the limelight for long: in the early 1980s he became an iconic pitchman for Miller Lite, appearing in the beer's famous "tastes great, less filling" ad campaign. Madden's barely restrained enthusiasm made him a natural salesman and he showed a knack for making anything - even foot fungus treatment - seem exciting: ("Boom! Tough-Actin' Tinactin...
British interior designer Ilse Crawford has a knack for dusting off traditional English style without succumbing to clich. For the Olde Bell, a newly refurbished inn in the English village of Hurley, in Berkshire, she combined classic materials like tweed, oak and felt with sleeker touches like Bestlite bedside lamps and modern dining chairs. Guests will find discreet luxuries such as Aesop bath products, retro-style Roberts radios and Windsor rocking chairs. But the real focus at the Olde Bell is the common spaces. "It's all based around the table," says Crawford of the inn's public rooms...