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Ware said he believed upper-class students may have been spared the moratorium on cigarettes and halogen lamps so far because of "custom and tradition," which have always allowed older students to have them...
...hadn't missed a thing on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average was at 7942 when you departed; 7894 when you reappeared, a pimple of a drop. But you would have been wrong--and missed the perverse pleasure of watching hordes of young traders sweating through their custom-made threads while the market extended and retracted like a bungee jumper flung off the George Washington Bridge...
...culture of versatile Latin polo pros might have remained an obscure local custom but for one thing. Last week Susan Cummings, 35, the daughter of a billionaire arms dealer, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the death of Roberto Villegas, 38, an internationally ranked Argentine polo star who coached her, trained her horses and played for her Ashland Farm team. On Sunday, Sept. 7, when Fauquier County authorities arrived at the 300-acre estate where Cummings and her twin sister Diana live, they found Villegas dead on the kitchen floor with multiple bullet wounds to the neck...
...suppose I shouldn't complain. After all, my popularity in Spain was due in large part to my California driver's license, to my ability to claim residence in the land of "Baywatch" and buxom, blond lifeguards. Store owners and custom officials would take a glance at my Los Angeles address and become chummy and friendly, eager to chat. "Harvard," on the other hand, triggered no special response and "Boston" merely elicited a blank stare...
...Everyone has enjoyed impressive growth over the past year and offers rock bottom prices from components to custom-built systems...