ABOUT a week into Jill Stoll's marriage, a colleague grabbed her hand and exclaimed, "Let's see the ring," recalled Ms. Stoll, who was teaching photography at the Dalton School.
Those who had never before sunk their teeth into a steaming glazed ring recalled the first time they heard a friend describe Krispy Kremes with words that struck them as inappropriately fawning for a mass-manufactured, caloric fried snack.
"I remember everyone suddenly gathered in a circle just staring at the phone waiting for it to ring," recalled Mr. Harris, adding that the phone-watchers included Rob Lowe, Jay Leno, the film director Ivan Reitman, Mr. Schwarzenegger's wife, Maria Shriver, and in-laws Sargent and Eunice Shriver.
Removal of the N sequence reveals a more symmetrical ring, recalling images of other ring-shaped AAA+ proteins (Mocz and Gibbons, 2001).
"As soon as the deal was done, my phone started ringing," recalls Taysom.
"I opened the package and said, 'Look, they're giving out rings,' " recalled Mr. Marran, who was momentarily stunned and then a bit disappointed as the realization sank in that he had been usurped as "Lord of the Rings".
"We were standing on line for Splash Mountain when the cellphone on my BlackBerry rang," recalled Mr. Foy, the chief executive of United Way of Long Island, who at the time was a lawyer practicing in Manhattan.
Sewell recalled, "I told Kirsten, 'I don't think I can ask!' And Kirsten said, 'O.K. Ring, ring!
As it began, Francis received two symbolic emblems of his role as leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics: the fisherman's ring, which recalls how St. Peter fished for food and later for souls, and the pallium, a white woolen vestment decorated with red crosses that symbolizes the role of the pope as a good shepherd.
