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...Tonight, the boys mingle with the cocktail crowd in the Upstairs Bar, in preparation for singing. The gathering consists of bankers, tired after a long day of watching golf, and the Harvard Krokodiloes are to be their fix. It's showtime and two tuxedoed young men step forward and address the crowd. They introduce themselvesoPerry and Chessoand explain that they are the Harvard Krokodiloes. It seems kind of a disappointment that there are only two singers in the group, but the crowd is liquored up enough not to care. Because of artistic differences, the boys explain, they...
Once a year, Maloney said, Harvard graduates serving in Congress are invited to a cocktail reception in Washington...
Picture this: at General Cinema's Premium theater in suburban Chicago, the $15 luxury cinematic experience starts with valet parking. After the concierge escorts you to a leather recliner, a waiter is on hand to mix up a martini and serve "previews" like shrimp cocktail and "feature presentations" (get it?) like prime rib. "It's like watching a movie with all the comforts of home but better service," says Mark Kanter, a regular at the luxury venue...
Here's a quick way to thin the crowd at your next cocktail party: launch into the theory of three steps and a stumble. Those who sense an imminent tale of baby's first steps will flee first. You'll lose the rest when they realize that you're talking about a bear-market harbinger that worked in the '80s. For this is a new age, and if anything is deadlier than a kid story among adults, it's a cautionary tale of how the stock market behaved in the pre-Crash, pre-Internet, it-may-as-well-be-prehistoric...
...that the sharp decline in deaths from AIDS that began two years ago, occasioned by powerful new drugs, has been cut in half. Some patients have struggled to get access to the drugs; others haven?t maintained the rigorous discipline required to maintain complicated daily dosing schedules of a cocktail of different pharmaceuticals; and even in many cases where the drugs have been properly administered, the virus often has proved more resilient than the medicine. AIDS researchers, doctors and activists gathered Monday in Atlanta for the National HIV Prevention Conference hoping that those statistics will help them challenge the complacency...