Word: bouncers
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...alternative one Friday night. We did find debauchery—in South Boston, no less—just not the sort we expected. Hotspot’s associate led us to a nondescript glass door marked with the RISE logo. Once on the other side, a remarkably congenial bouncer examined our guide’s card and allowed us to enter. You see, RISE is a “membership-only” club, whose packages range from $50 to $750 a year; depending on the price level. Members can bring between one and four guests. However, the lower membership...
There was a bouncer at the door, and a nice-looking Umbria girl was taking IDs. Budding financier and publisher Fred L. Bronstein ’06 shifted his weight on the steps, and JetBlue student rep Ming E. Vandenberg ’08 stood behind him. A tie-maker named Baruch Y. Shemtov ’09 made calls on his cell phone. A long line of angry tomcats piled up behind them, their leader loudly wondering what the fuck was up with the line...
...minute later, the bouncer got nice and the crowd walked through. Inside, oversized cutouts of Scene’s mission statement—“to portray the events, the people, the passions… that we are all a part of”—had been propped against support beams. The bar served free drinks until around midnight as an elevated DJ booth blasted music...
Since then, his company has developed the FortiGate security system, the only ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) accelerated network-based antivirus firewall system. As viruses attack a computer network, the FortiGate system, like a bouncer at the entrance to a popular nightclub, screens out the rogue operators before they can get to the computers. "Computer viruses are like the avian flu," Xie says. "You can vaccinate each person against the flu, or you can stop the virus before it gets there...
...club scene is an interesting one, mostly because everyone has different goals once making it past the bouncer, the coat check, and onto the dance floor. After conducting very thorough empirical study (i.e. chatting with a couple of my friends), I am of the opinion that the dance floor is divided by chromosomes. In general, a group of guys will go to a club to seek out girls while a group of girls will go to a club simply to drink, dance, and have a good time with one another. According to many girls, if they happen to meet some...