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McBride, a Winthrop House resident, has just been pleased with the chance to play lacrosse for a good team and with good people. Being captain is a bonus. So are all the goals she has scored and all the awards...
...Bill Buckner's glove in the 10th inning of Game Six, enabling the Mets to tie the Series and force a seventh game. What many may not remember, however, is how Wilson managed to stay alive at the plate again and again against Boston's Bob Stanley. For 3 bonus points, how many two-strike pitches did Wilson foul off before drilling the fateful grounder...
Such colorful eating brings a bonus in human contacts. Waiters and waitresses are especially solicitous, offering to show foreign guests exactly how to convey a jiaozi from plate to mouth with chopsticks so that the dumpling remains intact with no loss of broth. The Westerner who can master the technique may be rewarded with a free meal, plus a tour of the kitchen, where workers grinningly pose for pictures and shyly call, "Hello," the one English word they seem to know...
...permits a project with up to 6 units of housing on 1,200 square feet of land. But for the first time, builders may also choose ``Residence C-1'' provisions--which permit up to 10 units on the same land--in return for an agreement to sell half the ``bonus units'' (i.e., extra units allowed by the more generous zoning) for $85,000 or less--in this case, two units...
They also collected nearly $75,000 apiece as the loser's share in the World Series, but the bonus money went to a select group. A handful of players, like Bob Stanley, were so ashamed of the team vote in sharing the money that they dug into their own pockets to reward such people as clubhouse attendants. ground crew members and parking lot attendants...