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...instance, the Key's annual banquet for new members is more akin to a high-society orgy than a student group induction ceremony. Keysters ply themselves with liquor and, revelling in the maelstrom of their collective magnetism, frantically jockey to pair off with the most desirable newcomers. Granted, what goes on is surely fun for all involved and is certainly no more distasteful than what you find at any final club on a given weekend night. But, because the Key claims to be something more than the Hasty Pudding, and because it claims to represent us and our college...
...objectifying, and in a way that never seems to pertain to guy jocks. Sure, Joe Namath did that take-it-all-off Noxzema ad years ago; Jim Palmer posed in his Jockey shorts, and there's always been a bold sexual element to NBA basketball. But by and large, male sports celebrity is calibrated by success. You win, you make more headlines, you make more dough...
RETIRING. JULIE KRONE, 35, the world's most successful female jockey; from a record-shattering 18-year career; in late spring. In 1993, riding Colonial Affair at the Belmont Stakes, the tiny but ferocious Krone became the first woman ever to win a Triple Crown race...
...worst wasn't even the revolting tale of the "Greaseman," a white disk jockey in Washington who was fired for appending a vile quip to a portion of a song by multiple Grammy Award-winning hip-hop singer Lauryn Hill: "No wonder people drag them behind trucks...
...politicking will likely last beyond the November vote, as the councillors start to jockey for the position of mayor...