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...teenagers flocked to video arcades to try their feet on a sensor pad that rated their hottest dance moves against a machine. Now, DDR, dubbed "karaoke for the feet," is electrifying the U.S., and no one is more entranced than Aldea, a 29-year-old data programmer whose alter ego is a cool groover named 8-ball. Aldea has been jamming to DDR for a year now, and he loves how his agile antics draw crowds at San Francisco's Metreon super-entertainment complex. "This is all about performing," he says. "It's about making eye contact with the crowd...
...students have asked whether we are simply engaging in heroics—whether ego, not issue, drives our action. The administration’s paternalism answers this question. Students have freedoms and securities within the University that janitors and other low-wage workers do not. Thus, we have a power that we are called upon to exercise in solidarity with workers who are struggling as forcefully as they can. As many workers have told us, they fear abusive treatment, the loss of their livelihoods and even deportation if they participate in public acts of protest. Poverty also imposes limits...
Congratulations, not just for your acceptance, although it feeds my ego to acclaim that shared accomplishment, but for sticking around an extra day to further investigate your college choice...
...even more ego gratifying than being kissed by models was rejecting people. One guy brought six models and promised to buy a bottle of champagne. I sent him back to his stretch limo. I shooed away a man who called himself Papa and tried to stuff a $50 in my palm. I sent home a Wall Street guy who kept offering to "take care of me" and making me look at his date. And I couldn't say yes to the guy with a bandage on his nose who wanted a sympathy ticket for his "deviated septum" surgery. I turned...
DIED. ED (BIG DADDY) ROTH, 69, dotty hot-rodder whose cartoon alter ego, "Rat Fink," glared at convention and Mickey Mouse; of a heart attack; in Manti, Utah. He was called "the most capricious" of car customizers by Tom Wolfe...