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...Matterhorn, Switzerland's best-known mountain, is also one of its hardest to climb, requiring peak fitness and experience using crampons and ropes at high altitudes. That didn't deter Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, 58, the chief executive of Nestle, who has been mountaineering in the Alps since he was a child. He fulfilled a lifelong ambition last summer by reaching the 14,692-ft. summit. "It was just perfect," he says, his eyes sparkling at the memory...
...while significant, aren't billed as any kind of revolution. Brabeck has spent his entire professional life at Nestle, working his way up from lowly ice-cream salesman, and he's respectful of the 136-year-old company's traditions. Just as in the mountains, he moves with care. "Peter Brabeck lives life to the full, but he's circumspect," says Vreni Spoerry, 64, a nonexecutive Nestle director for the past decade. "He's good at anticipating what might happen and seeing where the risks lurk...
...getting a lot of exercise, or running around a lot. 10) Lena Chen ’09, because we assume you too are getting a lot of exercise, if of a different kind, and because you have to make a requisite appearance on any list about Harvard nudity. 11) Peter C. “Petros” Shields ’09. The boy can apparently make his body glow. 12) Claude, head of Kirkland maintenance. You can maintain us anytime. 13) Dean Michael D. Smith. You have a generic name and face. You probably also have a generic body...
...Born in the U.S.A." "I ain't gonna play Sun City." Lyric fragments that, once heard, become a whole political statement in miniature, a rhythmic testament of pride and conscience. There is another that belongs in their company. It is a simple declarative dedication, really, spoken quietly by Peter Gabriel: "This is for Steven Biko." And Biko begins, its incantatory drum sounds and eldritch rhythms working some deep magic before Gabriel even gets to the first verse...
Mailer started to change after his freshman year, evolving into the character he would become known for in his six-decade career. According to a book by Peter Manso, Mailer began to voice his opinions more often after joining the campus literary magazine, The Advocate, in his sophomore year...