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...golfing terms, Hootie Johnson used too much club. When the chairman of Augusta National Golf Club--host of the prestigious Masters tournament--responded to a letter from Martha Burk, chairwoman of the National Council of Women's Organizations (NCWO), who was inquiring whether the all-male bastion would consider women for membership, his response wasn't a polite "Thank you for your interest, but this is a private club." Nope. Johnson swung from the heels. Gripped it and ripped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Teed Off | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

However, not all workers in the Square are all over the rampant, imaginative seduction techniques of Harvard students. Take Mark Burk, the emerald green-eyed Adonis who works at Audio Replay on Bow Street. Burk and his coworker, Andre Sadowski, an enticing blonde, have seen tactics that range across the desperation gamut during their three years working at the store: from a female Lampoon business comper offering herself for the price of an ad to two girls coming in with a porno tape stuck in their VCR. The store’s security camera catches Harvard women who regularly...

Author: By Angie Marek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Working the Streets | 11/8/2001 | See Source »

...most memorable moments of seduction for Burk occurred in no other place than the teeming, teenage, hormone breeding ground that is Harvard Yard. Burk made the short trip to the Yard in his black Land Rover with his right-out-of-Grafton-Street street clothes serving as his only uniform. He admits this unique look distinguishes him from many other men in the television delivering profession. After setting up a television in an ogling freshman’s common room, Burk was “somewhat surprised” when this teenage vixen importuned him to stay for a drink...

Author: By Angie Marek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Working the Streets | 11/8/2001 | See Source »

...even though Harvard students spend a lot of time here—at Harvard—it seems many of them would prefer to keep their dates on safe, home turf. This makes little sense to real people who aren’t cursed with Crimson-tinted tunnel vision. Burk, who has dated more than 20 Harvard students and three professors in the past three years, has always simply assumed these women wanted to be taken downtown and introduced into the wider world of Boston...

Author: By Angie Marek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Working the Streets | 11/8/2001 | See Source »

...feel for Harvard women,” Burk said. “They don’t want to date the average college Joe. We have perspective and I think we are great outlets for girls who want to see new things. I love to be a gentleman and take a woman downtown to Audubon [Circle Restaurant & Bar] or Biba, for instance...

Author: By Angie Marek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Working the Streets | 11/8/2001 | See Source »

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