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...presently doing the internship gig in New York. This is a summer activity in which at least 50 percent of Harvard students participate at some point or another, though the city may vary to either Boston or Washington. You know the deal--low or no bucks for the possibility of perks, one of which is the daily Happy Hour where beer costs two dollars per bottle and everyone gets, well, happy...
Breyer $4.5 to Travel to Barcelona and Florence $7.3 million for summer teaching gig and conferences...
Ginsburg $4.4 to Travel to Innsbruck, Austria, $7.1 million for summer teaching gig...
Scalia $595,000 to Travel to Nice, France, for $1.3 million teaching gig...
...Making the cultural transition from the North to the South was a difficult one for the group's three Yankees. At the university at that time, band members recall, whites would sometimes be kicked out of frats for having too many black friends. Hootie & the Blowfish's very first gig was held at an off-campus fraternity with a reputation for racism--and the interracial band was understandably wary. "We were a little concerned about going out there and playing," says Bryan. "So we brought our Marine buddies along...