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Those men instilled in Brown what would become his most salient trait: his incandescent self-confidence. "What stuck with Ron was how great it was that they were there, and how he was going to be like them," recalled his former assistant, Melissa Moss. "He was missing the computer chip that said, 'Caution, you can't do this.'" The hotel also offered young Ron his first chance to sample the rewards of peddling influence. Until guests like Joe Louis got wind of the scheme and put a stop to it, he made a brief career of badgering famous guests...
Well, one thing led to another, and before you knew it, we'd bought the monastery and put the monks to work weaving our new Katmandu Cottage Curtains (see page 32; also available in cranberry and moss). We're proud to have brought a traditionally indolent people into the new economy, giving them dignity and a chance to contribute to their country's nascent gnp. And because we've taught the monks to scrupulously detoxify their dyes before dumping them upstream from the tiny, unspoiled Nepalese villages (whose honey-skinned children are so to die for that...
...hard-focus lyricism from an earlier generation of photographers, including Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston. The lesson of their work was that clear, sharp pictures could still have something unearthly about them--when considered in high detail (and in the proper frame of mind) even a patch of moss can look like a message from God, or a projection of the unconscious, or an emblem of the soul. With Callahan, it's not always clear just which of those directions he's pointed in. He hasn't been much inclined to publish long statements of philosophical intent. But he manages...
...Meredith Moss Quinn '99, a member of International Peace Games, said she hopes her organization can raise awareness of domestic violence while providing "means of action that are realistic for college students...
...soapdom's archetypal conflicts: the pitting of the poor, conniving, tube-top-wearing vixen against the tasteful, trust-funded beauty. Peyton Richards (Jamie Luner) is the former, Savannah's pre-eminent troublemaker; her rival is the kindly, blond Reese Burton (Shannon Sturges), an heiress with the IQ of Spanish moss...