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...later at an alumni event. We were married six months after that, in 1993. We had sort of a whirlwind romance and planned our wedding quickly in a strange town where we knew no one. Several years later, when we were looking to get out of the work-for-hire world, a friend of ours brought up weddings. Lightning bolts went off in the room, and everyone thought, This is brilliant. Young people, the first to adopt the Internet, have a lot of money to spend in a short period of time and are desperate both for information...
Mitt Romney told the Wall Street Journal last week that if he is elected President, he will "probably" hire McKinsey, the management-consulting firm, to tell him how to reorganize the government. "I'm not kidding," he said, tactfully adding that it might be another management-consulting firm such as Bain (where Romney worked for years and where he got rich) or the Boston Consulting Group. Or he just might call on Jack Welch, who retired years back as CEO of General Electric but has yet to be replaced in the Lee Iacocca Chair as America's semiofficial Business...
...Friar’s Club Roast: Hire celebrity impersonators to roast you and your friends in your common room. $100 doesn’t stretch too far, so instead of a Dane Cook impersonator, you might have to actually put up with Dane Cook...
...years ago, this was the town that time forgot, which in a way is a good thing. Today the quaint and sometimes cobblestoned streets, especially the meandering Rue Saint-Paul, are abuzz with new bars, art galleries, restaurants and lofts. On a rainy or snowy afternoon, you can also hire a caleche (a horse-drawn carriage, which costs about $26 for 30 min.), snuggle up under a giant fur and watch the scenery of this trading town on the banks of St. Lawrence go by. It's not hard to pretend you're still in the 18th century...
...change that will be in effect this year—though not related to alcohol policy—is that student groups will not be permitted to provide their own music. Instead, the Yale athletics department will hire student DJs to provide music at the tailgate...