Word: rotaryism
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The pilgrims to Shanksville still exude the same manic patriotism that swept the U.S. immediately after Sept. 11. On a recent afternoon, 150 members of Rotary International, brandishing small American flags, descended on the site in three tour buses. The Rev. Duane Slade paid homage to the passengers who went...
Keith, self-proclaimed “public citizen” and senior vice president for development and communications at the YMCA of Honolulu, took a circuitous route to Penguin Putnam, beginning in mid-September 1997 at a meeting of the Honolulu Rotary Club. Keith was in a rut with his...
After the Rotary Club meeting in 1997, Wally Amos (of chocolate-chip cookie fame) connected Keith to a small Maui company, Inner Ocean Publishing. After he expanded the commandments to a book explaining the meaning of each one, that company not only bought the manuscript but sold its rights to...
His first model, built in 1962, looked like a flying saucer and never got off the ground. The current iteration, the M400, is painted hot-rod red and shaped like a miniature fighter plane. It is powered by eight 150-horsepower methanol-burning rotary engines, has a state-of-the...
Gray acquires goods at liquidation sales and by bartering with a network of Latin contacts, who help smooth his way through Customs and provide other favors. He recently secured corrective surgery for a Salvadoran boy with a deformed leg in exchange for providing a surgeon with a supply of crutches...