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...extraordinary talents of these individuals fall under a category far removed from boring dinner party antics. These human achievements put to shame junior varsity gags like showing fifteen grapes into the mouth, separating each and every toe ("monkey toes") or stuffing an entire Twizzler down the throat and using it as a straw. No mere tricks, these are true talents...

Author: By Avra VAN Der zee and Carlin E. Wing, S | Title: OH THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

...Fifteen of the 21 candidates have worked at Let's Go, a testament both to the fact that Let's Go is the largest of the agencies and also to the importance of the upcoming renegotiations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New HSA Board Faces A Year of Challenges | 10/13/1998 | See Source »

This kind of unnoticed popularity has long been the status quo for Koch, who, despite having published fifteen books of poems, several plays, two works of fiction and three very influential volumes on teaching poetry, despite his long-standing membership in the famous "New York School" of poets, and despite his decades-long association with many of the most significant names in American literature, has never been of great interest to the academic critical establishment. His new books, when they appear, are readily available and widely read, but they never seem to generate much critical dialogue, to the point that...

Author: By Brian N. Phillips, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Poet Koch Enjoys 'Unnoticed Popularity' | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...Your children. Congratulations: it is fifteen years after graduation, and you've finally hit the big time: two boys and one girl. Your daughter just got her elementary school "yearbook" and suddenly wants to see yours. "Wow, Mom," she says, "you did so much stuff in college! What's Model U.N.?" And you say, "Um, uh, I'm not sure." "But it says here you were Vice-President!" You clear your throat and say, "Well, it was a long time ago." This is just too depressing to think about...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Who's Reading That Yearbook? | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

...then there is the only category that matters: 4. Your classmates. Congratulations: it's fifteen days before graduation, and you've finally hit the big time. You're about to receive your bachelors degree, maybe even a masters to boot. Classes and exams are over at last, and you have two weeks left to spend with your classmates before they are scattered to the winds. Yearbooks are distributed, and everyone rushes to look at the pictures of themselves and all their friends. And the real vice-president opens the book and says, "Who are all these losers pretending...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Who's Reading That Yearbook? | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

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