Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is the story of the last Friday night, beginning with the first successful party crash, and ending as the door closes on Party Number...
...Though we're encouraged to accompany them to Club Joy, we have places to go and parties to crash. We ditch the freshmen and cross Mass. Ave. to reach the bus stop. We board the #1 Bus on the way to the MIT Alpha Delta Phi fraternity house near Central Square...
...long and apparently educational meetings between U.S. executives and Cuban officials such as Concepcion Campa, 48. Campa is director of the state-run Finlay Institute, the Havana bio-research facility at which she created the meningitis vaccine. But she's also a communist Politburo member, and she got a crash course in capitalist haggling during the negotiations, as well as a closer, less ideological understanding of Americans. "It was hard to make sense of all those Anglo-Saxon contract clauses," she told TIME. "But we appreciated each other's forms of thinking better...
Then I tried to set up the system and entered AirPort hell--the Mac equivalent of spending the night on a plastic seat at J.F.K. The AirPort software made both the iBook and my brand-new iMac crash repeatedly. On the rare occasions they recognized the presence of the base station, both machines obstinately refused to connect...
...Kennedy's personal failings, including the fatal car crash at Chappaquiddick, his flagrant womanizing and broken marriage, his excessive drinking, his enabling role in the boozy evening that led to his nephew William Kennedy Smith's trial (and acquittal) for rape--all are dealt with matter-of-factly and unsensationally, but not without judgment. Clymer describes these episodes as they were: egregious cases of irresponsible behavior that disqualified Kennedy from ever being President. But he also paints a sympathetic picture of a lonely man who finds love with his second wife Vicki...