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...lodge room. It's basically just a waist-high piece of furniture that has a Bible or whatever sacred text the individual has for their particular religion. Then you're walked around the lodge room, introduced to each of the main officers. You see the assembled brethren and the master of the lodge before you in his top hat. It's very traditional, early-1800s garb. And after the ritual - and this is true of all the Masonic degrees - the master recites a lecture on the group's history and symbols, memorized word for word. Those haven't changed...
...Order of DeMolay for boys and Rainbow Girls, which encourage kids to be good citizens and give them social circles that are supervised by adults and are more positive than hanging out on street corners. The organization is also based on a kind of stoic philosophy, to become the master of your own passions - don't fall prey to your emotions, to anger - and to have a sort of balanced perspective on life...
...taught the rest of us as well. If Julia Child gave American women the information and confidence to master the French classics, Lukins freed them from the strictures of a single cuisine. In her best-selling Silver Palate cookbooks, co-authored with Julee Rosso, she borrowed flavors and techniques from around the world to create a sophisticated style that 1980s America, with its new prosperity and attention to food, was ready to claim as its own. The dinner party was never the same...
...quick master class from an MTV exec, Paul DeGooyer, and four Beatle stand-ins, who directed us to "gems" cascading down the screen. The color of the gem tells you which fret to hit on your guitar. "If you don't hit it," DeGooyer explained, "you'll hear some dissonance or you won't hear anything at all." (It's a very forgiving game.) (See the top 10 fake bands...
With Nakajima heading global development, 268 franchises have sprouted in 15 countries, from Portugal to South Korea, always with a local master franchiser to navigate native customs. In New Zealand, for example, managers must observe such niceties as never matching a Maori client from the Ngai Tahu tribe with a caregiver from the Tainui...