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...just any specimen that lands on that oscillating tray makes the grade. The Monty Python song notwithstanding, every sperm is not, in fact, sacred; each specimen is checked for sperm count, diseases and the like. Furthermore, as with any commodity in a free market, some sperm are more equal than others. To that elitist end, each donor must fill out a tedious, two-page questionnaire with questions like: Hair color? Straight hair, curly or wavy? Eye color? Left-handed or right-handed? Jewish ancestry? College? Major? High school? Family illnesses or health issues related to incest? Then I filled...

Author: By Eliot I. Hodges, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Giving the Gift of Life | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...their larger Quad rival with "an ultimatum," in the words of Pforzheimer HoCo Chair Manuel A. Garcia '00, to "either have a fairer system, or we're going to have our own formal." Adds Currier House Committee chair Daniel L. Cendan '00, also a Crimson editor, "Our offer was equal in, equal out." Jones and Melissa Mueller '00, the other Cabot co-chair, brought the proposal back to their House masters and senior tutor, and, Jones claims, with an understanding that Currier and PfoHo "couldn't guarantee to put in one-third of the effort." Because of the previous year...

Author: By B.c. Wilkinson, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Formal Exclusive | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...teams appear equal, that is, except for Clarkson...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan and Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Around the Men | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

...This games matters a lot to us in terms of building our confidence in playing top teams," Zotter said. "It's good to face teams that are equal in ability to us. BYU and Hartford are the only teams that we have played that are at the level of tournament teams...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No. 15 W. Soccer Ready to Face No. 7 UConn | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

...trip, we visited Captain Blaubar, a blue-bear pirate who, as luck would have it, has his own amusement park. Blaubar's assistant, Heimblud is a tall, lanky weasel--an absurd caricature of Mickey Mouse who proves, once and for all, that all rodents are not created equal. The park itself is an odd collage, including a petting zoo, cow-milking competition, and a half pipe for skateboarding teenagers...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: The American Invasion | 10/26/1999 | See Source »

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