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After a solid first period performance, the Crimson appeared to be in the driver's seat to overtake the Big Red's 2-1 lead. But 1:27 in to the second stanza, the momentum of the game permanently swung in Cornell's favor...
...youngster behind the cash register, after getting over the shock of the order, called for an over-18 employee from the back. Squeaking, "Sorry, I'm not allowed to ring it up," he deferred to his co-worker, of dubious age herself. Although his colleague accepted the Florida driver's license without question, the minor requested a second look. Glancing down, he announced, "It says she turns 21 on 2/3/99. She's not 21 yet!" After a gentle reminder of the recent millennium celebration, he sheepishly surrendered the ID and gave the go-ahead for the order. When the glass...
...gained notoriety on campus in October for claiming mob connections and offering students the chance to buy fake New York State driver's licenses for $80 a pop. Many students refused to speak on the record about their brush with organized crime. Whether it was out of fear of reprisals from the mafia or from the Ad Board, students were keeping mum--in either case it's possible that students could end up in the Annenberg meat cooler...
...Millennium handles software conflicts is interesting--especially compared with OS X's new approach. Have you ever installed a program only to find out that Mr. Computer doesn't like it? That happened to me recently with Quake3. When I installed the game, it apparently screwed up the driver for my sound card, silencing my PC. I tried uninstalling the program, but that didn't help. I finally had to reinstall the sound-card driver. Millennium behaves like a time machine so you can easily roll your system back to the day before whatever trouble you're experiencing began. Naturally...
Once an accomplished speed skier, Skakel is amiable, a faithful member of Alcoholics Anonymous and an increasingly devout Catholic. He worked as a driver in Ted Kennedy's re-election campaign in 1994, then took a similar job with cousin Michael Kennedy's nonprofit Citizens Energy Corp. In 1997, however, Skakel talked to police about his cousin's affair with a 15-year-old babysitter. (Michael died in a 1997 skiing accident.) Soon after, Skakel moved from Massachusetts into the Florida house owned by his father in an expensive gated community. Still, Robert Kennedy Jr. told the New York Times...