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...omen for wonderful things to come," says Dorothea Liddell. He was way clever, she recalls, so much so that if he didn't get a concept she knew she had to teach it again, but "he never flaunted his intelligence over the other kids." Classmate Betsy Starr Swan remembers the science fair in which her team's water-purification exhibit lost out to a Roberts-designed automatic table fork. "I don't think he ever lost a spelling bee. We'd all line up at the chalkboard, but we knew John was going to win." When he got things wrong...
...movies, it's Natalie Portman. in music, it's Norah Jones. And in fashion, it's Phoebe Philo. "It," in this case, refers to a woman who, without much hype or hoopla, emerges as the leader of the pack in her field, the swan the others paddle behind like cygnets. All three women are young and down-to-earth. And everybody wants a piece of them, or in Philo's case, as many pieces - bags, skirts, dresses - as they can afford. But unlike Portman or Jones, Philo is not yet a household name. She is the 31-year-old creative...
...movies, it's Natalie Portman. In music, it's Norah Jones. And in fashion it's Phoebe Philo. "It," in this case, refers to a woman who, without much hype or hoopla, emerges as the leader of the pack in her field, the swan the others paddle behind like cygnets. All three women are young and down to earth. And everybody wants a piece of them, or in Philo's case, as many pieces--bags, skirts, dresses--as they can afford. But unlike Portman or Jones, Philo is not yet a household name. She is the 31-year-old creative...
...years after romping undefeated through the Ivy League—and just one season after a disappointing 2004 run—seniors Reka Cserny and Katie Murphy went out with blessedly graceful swan songs...
Most people who buy Black Swan or Red Bicyclette probably don't realize they are drinking a Gallo wine. The Gallo brand appears nowhere on the labels. But Gallo's partnerships with international wineries--in Italy, Australia, New Zealand and France--account for an estimated 10 million cases of the company's sales. (That's still a puddle compared with the ocean of California wine Gallo produces every year--65 million cases in 2004, or half of all grapes grown in California.) Gallo formed its first partnership 10 years ago when executives saw how Americans who had been guzzling Chardonnay...