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...leave the CBS lot each week and letting them choose the $500,000 winner from among the final three contestants. (Early guess: In a house that has cameras everywhere, Jordan the exotic dancer and Jamie, Miss Washington 2000, will be among the last to be booted from afar...
...local representatives of the International Brotherhood and Sisterhood of Tall Subway Riders (IBSTSR) acknowledged my lanky, six-foot-five presence from afar as we rumbled on between Metro Center and Van Dorn St. after my second day of work. Seeing as how this train was more packed than usual, and seeing as how I had no chance of getting a seat, there was no place to look but down toward the ends of the car. That was where my eyes met those of the other tall folk, all over six-foot-three by my estimation...
Anna and Parham remain friends, and when Anna comes home, she and Parham sometimes meet up for a drink at Miyagi's, a sushi restaurant overlooking Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Both remember Maya from afar, never becoming close with the super-involved, yet soft-spoken classmate. "She was a musician, and she had basically the same grades I did," Anna says. "I wasn't surprised...
...rest of their story comes straight out of a medieval courtship handbook, minus the dowry that my mother's family could not afford. Boy admires girl from afar (in my parents' case, this phase lasts exactly one evening). Boy asks around the village about girl's reputation, intelligence, domestic abilities and willingness to move to America. Satisfied with his findings, boy approaches girl's father and asks for her hand in marriage. The deal is done, girl is notified of the arrangement and, two weeks later, the local kids are married in the town church. The next day, they leave...
...draft may have lacked the tension of the NFL's live ESPN version, but it turned up such gems as VerticalNet, VeriSign, Commerce One and Ariba, companies that until I had to lay out 750 Gs of Rotisserie money, I couldn't do much more than ogle from afar. And in the B2B league there's no team I have to lose money on every week, as I do with the Eagles, my hometown fave. I'm emotionally incapable of betting against them. I don't think I could have learned these companies fast enough without facing the prospect...