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...conflicting tales concerning its party potential. V. Yioula Sigounas '00, outgoing Advocate publicity manager, claimed that an infamous shindig held by the ever-racous Crimson Key led to the change in policy. The crimson-clad boozers rented out the building and proceeded to wreck the floor, much to the dismay of the Advocate aesthetes. During extensive renovations a few weeks ago, the floor was completely redone while the entire building was vacated. "It was a really big deal and we don't want to do it again any time soon," Sigounas grumbled...
...drug funds in gym bags, luggage and boxes on the streets of such cities as New York, Dallas, Madrid and Rome. Then, with the help of black-market money changers in Colombia, the dollars were converted into pesos and deposited into the traffickers' Colombian accounts. But much to the dismay of the brokerage firm's clients, their gains turned out to be purely short term...
According to Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet, this is the Agency's "biggest recruiting drive since the end of the Cold War." Thus, it would serve the CIA well to review its practice of the polygraph (a 30-year CIA veteran expressed to me his dismay over its use) and find ways to efficiently conduct the security clearance process (a new recruit even had to postpone his wedding due to uncertain timeline...
...quickly around the newsroom of the Los Angeles Times by interoffice e-mail. Otis Chandler, the former publisher who shepherded the paper to nine Pulitzer Prizes, was back--in spirit if not in fact. Chandler, who retired as publisher in 1980, sent his message directly to reporters, to the dismay of the newspaper's management. Read aloud as more than 100 staff members gathered in the newsroom, his words were stunningly direct. His successors, he said, had been "unbelievably stupid" and caused "the most serious single threat to the future" of the paper his family had bought in 1882. People...
After a strong 4-2 start last season, the Catamounts (13-18-2, 7-13-2, 9th) muddled through the rest of the season at 3-11-2, much to the dismay of Coach Mike Gilligan...