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...while a prominent Russian bell-ringer told the St. Petersburg Times last year that the University should foot the bill for returning the bells, church leaders have been more moderate and have talked about raising their own funds to finance the bells’ shipment...
Luis A. Campos ’99, a former Klappermeister, or bell-ringer, and a resident tutor in Lowell, said he had been looking forward to learning more about the bells’ history—and possibly picking up a few pointers on ringing from the monks...
From the very top of the monastery’s pink stucco tower, Father Roman Ugrinko, the senior bell ringer, points out the Moscow sites that have become familiar to him during his three years at Danilov—the Zil auto factory, the bend of the Moscow river, the sparkle of the Kremlin’s gold onion domes in the distance and the imposing Soviet-style cardboard box buildings that elbow the skyline...
...melody comes from the rhythm that the bell-ringer chooses, he says, adding that he mostly follows the traditional style...
...break on the talent part if you're willing to videotape yourself getting shot with a Taser. Case in point: prankster JOHNNY KNOXVILLE, of Jackass infamy, has no fewer than five movies in the works, and he just scored the lead in the upcoming Farrelly brothers' flick The Ringer, about a guy who pretends to be retarded so he can enter the Special Olympics. If that doesn't make you want to give up on Western culture, consider ASHTON KUTCHER, host of the MTV prank show Punk'd and Knoxville's heir aberrant. Not only is Kutcher a gossip-page...