Word: dollarize
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...when we formed our blocking groups. Peter blocked with two sycophant pussies, a kid with the mind of a seven-year old, a Jew, and a bi-courteous guy. Just to keep sane, Peter spends 60 hours per week in “Second Life” doing Linden Dollar arbitrage. DA blocked with five black guys, and you can imagine how that turned out. Now he won’t even go to the dining hall without using half a bottle of cocoa butter. You have already chosen your blocking group, so kudos; you now have...
...believe the students take anything from the mailrooms,” he says. He suspects address confusion is the true culprit. Since Eliot House is on Dunster Street, packages are sometimes accidentally delivered to Dunster House—in fact, one Eliot resident’s thousand-dollar wedding ring was once shipped to the wrong dormitory. But what’s a thesis-writing, movie-craving student to do? The only option seems to be curling up with a DVD from Lamont’s extensive selection (want to watch “Ben-Hur” again?) until...
...suite at 20 DeWolfe St. Having forgotten that it was a college dormitory he was ostensibly planning to burglarize, the man seemed surprised to find Tuan awake in the wee small hours of the morning. Dumbstruck, he asked Tuan if he could make change for a dollar. He produced a dollar bill from his pocket, for dramatic effect. And then he ran away...
...just returned from a late-night study session. Tuan said that he and the stranger stared speechlessly at each other for a moment, until Tuan asked the man what he was doing in his room. The intruder responded by asking Tuan if he had change for a dollar. Tuan said he continued to demand an explanation for the man’s entrance, but the stranger would only elaborate that his mother had sent him up here to get change for a dollar—even pulling out a dollar bill. “The man was more frightened...
...emerge in time for Academy Award consideration. Frequently, the top Oscar has gone to films of social or political sentiment, from The Life of Emile Zola and Mrs. Miniver to Dances with Wolves and Braveheart. In 2005 the Christian right's attacks on the mercy-killing plot of Million Dollar Baby may have been the spur for the Oscars that went to the film and its star, Hilary Swank...