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...57—“My fiancée cheated on me last week with a club bouncer who later tried to choke me. We are still engaged.” We do not condone this...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer and Peter W. Tilton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Try Out! The Real World | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

None of which means F1 is out of the woods. The audience for the sport may be changing, but the sport's culture has not. Yet it must. F1 is about as likable as a 250-lb. bouncer. It lives in a high-tech bubble and thrives on a velvet-rope mentality that keeps all but a few very high rollers far away from the cars and the drivers. "F1 has gotten extremely constipated and overly grand for itself," says Jackie Stewart. "When I was a wee boy, I went to the track and got [Juan Manuel] Fangio's autograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Turbulent Times of Formula One | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

Dining Hall: Kirkland is lucky to have card swiper (and bouncer) Tommy to guard the entrance to its small-ish dining hall, which has recently become more crowded with refugees from highly-restricted Adams, Lowell, and Leverett (negative points to you, other Houses!). But Kirkland's kitchen is one of the largest and easiest to navigate, with entrees and salad bar set off in different rooms. The House's grill chefs, once known for their superb breakfast omelets (rest in peace, hot breakfast), still serve up great greasy items for the other two meals of the day. Smaller tables...

Author: By William N. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Housing Market Reviews: Kirkland House | 3/10/2010 | See Source »

...chatting in the buff, a risk that makes ChatRoulette a site decidedly unsafe for work or for kids. For its part, ChatRoulette offers a disclaimer that the site is meant only for users over age 16 and provides a link to report offensive streams. But there's no virtual bouncer at the door to boot underage participants, and by the time you could report anything offensive, you've already seen way more than you wanted. Trust me on that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ChatRoulette: The Perils of Video Chats with Strangers | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...been commoditized into a must-have range of products. Nowadays, keeping up with the Joneses might mean flaunting specialist furniture such as a ?2,500 ($4,130) Stretching Bed from Dungeon Equipment or a ?115 ($190) Funswing, which looks like a cross between a hammock and a baby bouncer and could be mistaken for a comfortable perch for watching TV if the brochure didn't deploy explicit photos to illustrate its (im)proper use. "You can sell anything. You just need to find a niche," says Anna Grant, the proprietress of Funswings. (See a TIME video on celebrity sex tapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex, Please, We're British: London's Erotica Expo | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

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