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...with exams, and similarly, “punching” has absolutely no connection with boxing or violence of any form. The etimology of the term comes from the original drink of choice at final clubs’ member selection functions back in the day. While well-bred men scrutinized other well-bred men and decided between Groton, Exeter and Choate alums, they drank punch. Thus, the events came to be called “punch” events and the prospective members became “punches.” Punch, usually made with rum, was also a popular...
...high-pressure business, with inhuman hours and often with millions of dollars riding on a phone call. One source of Cantor's success is its close-knit character. Many of the veteran brokers had worked together for years, and the intense atmosphere and enormous financial responsibility bred deep friendships...
...comment, in huge letters, demands, “Find those responsible, their friends & accomplices, their families & neighbors and destroy them, their society, and the culture that bred these bastards.” Adjacent to that statement is a series of refutations...
...crusade against terrorism as something less than righteous. If we are truly to defeat terrorism, we must convert those people around the world to the idea that America is indeed a force for good. No one is born a terrorist; they are created and then bred. Only when we eliminate the breeding grounds of terrorism will we defeat...
...Whatever happened to Anne Welles?" asks Rae Lawrence in the opening line of Shadow of the Dolls, a sequel to Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann's classic 1966 paean to babes, booze and barbiturates. Susann had her own ideas about the fate of Anne, the well-bred supermodel, and her buddy Neely O'Hara, the libidinous, scheming singer. She wrote a plot outline before she died in 1974, and it is partly from this that romance author Lawrence has drawn the new novel...