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...bring a little iron and ironing board. You will use it, and so will all your roommates. As you'll quickly discover, steam showers don't work all that well. And DON"T bring anything that will require too much ironing--linen shirts will sit in your closet for eternity...
Incongruously dapper in a white linen suit, Warren B. Eugene stands before a roomful of computer experts and Internet entrepreneurs in New York City and explains the virtues of bringing to cyberspace the one vice that is always sure to pay: gambling. His audience is a little hostile at first. (Isn't it illegal? Immoral? A flagrant violation of-of something?) But the crowd seems to know more about computers than it does about bookmaking. And as Eugene deals out the charm-and the facts of the betting life-it warms to the idea...
...deal with Samsung, whose proposed stake in DreamWorks had grown from $500 million to $900 million as the talks progressed. That night the guest list swelled too, to more than a dozen, and Kate Capshaw, Spielberg's actress wife, had to scurry to a local store for extra table linen. The elegant meal of Chilean sea bass and white wine (except for Katzenberg, who sipped his usual Diet Coke) at the home of the most successful filmmaker in history had to impress Samsung's reclusive chairman Lee Kun Hee, an ardent movie fan with a private library of some...
...F.I.S. actually agreed to renounce violence. But fearful that the plan's provision for lifting the ban on the F.I.S. and barring the army from politics would pave the way for an Islamic republic, government hard-liners rejected the proposal, condemning the conference participants for "washing Algeria's dirty linen abroad...
...December 1992, Inati Ntshanga '95 wasarrested by Harvard police while he was working inthe Matthews Hall linen office as an employee ofHarvard Student Agencies. Police charged Ntshangawith breaking and entering, trespassing and use ofa burglary tool--his keys to the room. Ntshangawas later acquitted of all charges...