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...eight years ago he was peddling his clothes on the sidewalk of the Boulevard St.-Germain, calling out to passersby in a Mississippi drawl, "Tres chic! Pas cher!"? Now he's selling on four continents. "Patrick is refreshing because he isn't trying to be divine," says Mary Ann Wheaton, who runs Kelly's worldwide operations...
...coach Pingatore worried about Carl's low marks and the risk that he might lose the scholarship. Pingatore had an idea for bringing up Carl's grade-point average. He had Carl enroll in two correspondence courses -- American government and civics -- at the Loretto Extension Service in Wheaton, Ill. Carl did assignments in a workbook under the tutelage of Pingatore. He received an A in both courses. The grades were recorded on his regular high school transcript. There was no reference on the transcript to any correspondence courses. The only thing to set the courses apart was the postgraduation completion...
...original idea for this unusual church came from Gilbert Bilezikian, 60, a professor of biblical studies at Wheaton College. Bilezikian was troubled by what he perceived as the growing irrelevance of some Christian churches. "Too often," he says, "church is like a football game with 22,000 spectators sitting in the stands doing nothing but cheering, and 22 players providing the action in the middle." In 1972 Bilezikian found an ideal quarterback for the new kind of team he envisioned: Bill Hybels...
...really great with so many organizations and so many people coming out," said Lisa Kim, a Wheaton College student...
...They were valuable members of the team, but the core of the team is coming back," Wheaton said. "Next season looks good...