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...House List: Active. Schmooze is certainly one of, if not the liveliest of all the house e-mail lists. If you post something to Schmooze (the pretentious name of the Adams e-mail list), someone is probably going to respond. If you need fishnets and superglue, someone will offer them to you within minutes of your Schmooze request. And Adams residents always have something to say about a topic. See the great wrap/sandwich debate...
...House List: Lots of event-based spam hits the Eliot list, but it's worth keeping yourself subscribed for the occasional entertaining YouTube post or random argument...
House Culture: This House is all about the Fete, and Eliot's strict resident + one policy sends the House List into a frenzy looking for extra tickets every April. That said, it quite doesn't live up to the hype, though perhaps no House formal could. Throughout the year, Eliot takes its weekly Stein Clubs almost as seriously as its Boat Club, whose members, including Lino, flood the dining hall every morning after spring break. You might think a House blog would be a selling point, but the recently launched El-Word is heavily dominated...
...doubt recognize the names of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Oprah when scanning Forbes' latest list of "The World's Billionaires." But amid the various business tycoons, A-list celebs and royal heirs on the annual roll call is someone known mainly by members of Mexico's seedy underground and the police officers who chase them: Joaquin "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzman Loera. (Read "Mexico Exports its Drug Wars to Guatemala...
...cocaine to the U.S. each year, American authorities are no less interested in bringing him down. The U.S. government is offering a $5 million reward for his capture - a rather meager amount given that Guzman's estimated net worth is $1 billion, putting him at #701 on the Forbes list, between a Swiss oil tycoon and an American heir to the Campbell Soup fortune. And unlike many of his fellow billionaires who've already lost untold fortunes to the global downturn, Guzman's empire likely made even more money in 2008 - a banner year for cocaine trafficking. (See pictures...