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...into Boston my freshman year had been to this very establishment and I had found it rather exciting that night. For two years I had carefully plotted out my return, planning to party in Boston every weekend "once I turn 21." Now that a month has passed since that grand day, I do not find myself reveling in the pleasures of my newfound legality, but griping about loud music, extreme heat and the plethora of underage men and over-made up women. Now that my roommates and I have finally escaped the confines of Cambridge to explore the hopping nightlife...
...Nevertheless, if you want to revel in my shame, just check out the rankings in "Tim's Group of Excellence." Several friends and even a few people I've never met are cleaning my clock on the way to the Sweet 16. In my own defense, I spent a grand total of 120 seconds filling out my bracket--Duke, my perennial favorite since the days of Christian Laettner, is filled in every round through to the championship, where I have them defeating UConn...
...into Boston my freshman year had been to this very establishment and I had found it rather exciting that night. For two years I had carefully plotted out my return, planning to party in Boston every weekend "once I turn 21." Now that a month has passed since that grand day, I do not find myself reveling in the pleasures of my newfound legality, but griping about loud music, extreme heat and the plethora of underage men and over-made up women. Now that my roommates and I have finally escaped the confines of Cambridge to explore the hopping nightlife...
...have made little or no progress in winnowing out the Y2K bug. Only 80 percent of key government computers have been given a clean bill of health. The cost for ensuring that the government gets in line digitally by 2000 has been nudged upward by $400 million, to a grand total of $6.8 billion. No catastrophes are expected...
Edna's "awakening" begins--and ends --at Grand Isle on the Gulf of Mexico, a two-hour drive south of New Orleans. A deadly hurricane in 1893 leveled much of the island, but the smooth beaches and sultry subtropical climate remain unchanged. It is not hard to imagine Edna in her final swim, lured by "the voice of the sea...seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude...