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...about Valentine's Day until the last minute. Late in the day, in a panic, he ordered so many roses to be delivered that he was still paying off the debt by year's end. In fact, he says, those flowers were the reason he decided to stay and earn some money working for dorm crew...

Author: By Thomas J. Castillo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: From Cap and Gown to Wedding Gown | 6/7/2000 | See Source »

...hour pay level for all workers. Perhaps such a calculation will be more than just a simple figure, one that takes into account the marginal value of benefits at various wage levels. For example, many subcontracted workers, particularly guards employed by SSI and janitors employed by UNICCO, currently earn wages far lower than their Harvard counterparts in addition to not receiving health benefits. For these workers, simply adding health benefits might not be as valuable as a pay raise. Since Harvard has so far dismissed a discussion of actual wages of these subcontracted workers in favor of fringe benefits, there...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: The Living Wage Fight | 6/7/2000 | See Source »

...McInally is also the only person ever to earn a perfect score on the Wonderlick test, the NFL's version of an IQ test given to all potential draftees...

Author: By Eli M. Alper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Year to Remember: Crimson Excels in '75 | 6/6/2000 | See Source »

...incentive. A Miami dealer who goes by the name "Top Dog" told TIME he obtains MDMA test kits from a connection on the police force. "If [the pills] are no good," he says, customers "won't want to buy from you anymore." It's business sense: Top Dog can earn $300,000 a year on e sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happiness Is...A Pill?: The Science: The Lure Of Ecstasy | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...died last week at 96, gave such passionately acute readings in works sublime and not so; what other actor would be pleased both to be the definitive romantic Hamlet, which he acted some 500 times, and to lend regal pedigree to Bob Guccione's pornific Caligula? Who else could earn critic Kenneth Tynan's prickly compliment "the finest actor on earth, from the neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Night, Sweet Prince: ARTHUR JOHN GIELGUD (1904-2000) | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

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