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...turning to a quick-fix solution: speed dating. Lining up at tables in bars and clubs across the country, single men and women come on to one another for precisely three minutes before a bell sends them shuffling over to the next table. Salsa dancing and games (tarot cards, anyone?) are also on offer. Daters mark their card if they find someone interesting, and if the attraction is mutual the pair can swap e-mails later. For those who don't connect, three minutes is (relatively) painless. Over two nights last week, 3,000 single people gathered at London...
...Healthy Ma has a one-year contract with the Shanghai Sharks, a shaved skull, a black Fubu do-rag, a red Phat Farm sweatshirt, a U.S. green card, and an American wife and two little sons in Henderson, Nevada. At 33, balanced on a weak right knee, he yearns for one last NBA dance...
...tried to pour scorn in a sketch, the malice didn't always take. He drew the Broadway entrepreneur David Merrick, a particular bete noire, as a malevolent Santa Claus, complete with bell, book and candle. Merrick's reaction: he bought the drawing and used it as his Christmas card. Seen today, that sketch has an eerie resemblance to a certain artist's early self-portraits - for this Merrick looks like the younger, saturnine Al Hirschfeld...
...following online: update personal information such as mailing addresses and emergency contact information; view personal academic information such as your major and minor, the number of units completed and general education and foreign language requirements fulfilled; and, most importantly, register for class! No need to submit a paper study card, no need to trek to the likes of Lehman Hall or 20 Garden Street! Dropping or adding courses, selecting Pass/Fail grading—all done online! Now, wouldn’t that be convenient? Well, students at Stanford have been able to do all of this for at least five...
DIED. GEORGE WATERS, 87, executive who turned the American Express card into the company's flagship product; of heart problems; in Fair Haven, N.J. Until 1961, when Waters was hired, credit cards were used mostly by restaurants, Visa and MasterCard did not exist, and the American Express card lagged behind one offered by the Diners Club. One of his first moves was to persuade American Airlines to accept the American Express card; other airlines and businesses followed quickly, and the card soon became a global brand...