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...don’t have to come from a very wealthy background to become a hockey player and play college hockey, and I think a lot of people forget that,” he said. “There are scholarships out there, and if you work hard enough, you can earn them...
...preteens and closet fanatics alike crowd the rear of the Harvard Square Sprint Store, eagerly anticipating the arrival of MTV Real World cast members Ace, from the Paris season, and Cameran and Randy, of the currently running San Diego season. Representatives from JAMN 94.5 provide a festive hip hop background and an equally festive aesthetic background with their matching red t-shirts and gelled hair. The stage...
...campus saturated with diversity, Hamm initially tried to downplay his unique background. But twelve siblings proved impossible to hide. “After a month of telling so many stories about this brother and that sister, my roommates finally were like ‘How many siblings do you have?’” Though 12 kids may be, as the movie says, an “insane” number, in the end it proves to be twelve times...
...campus saturated with diversity, Hamm initially tried to downplay his unique background. But twelve siblings proved impossible to hide. “After a month of telling so many stories about this brother and that sister, my roommates finally were like ‘How many siblings do you have?’” Though 12 kids may be, as the movie says, an “insane” number, in the end it proves to be twelve times...
Every new detail that emerges in the trial about Kozlowski's alleged excesses only reinforces Breen's reforming mission. Last month a former Tyco spokesman testified that Kozlowski used company funds to pay for a $20,000 background check on the fiance of a Merrill Lynch analyst who followed the company. And, of course, there was the birthday party in Sardinia for Kozlowski's wife, which prosecutors claim was partly paid for with Tyco funds and featured a cake in the shape of a woman with exploding breasts...