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...Your next door neighbor, dressed in a white sheet with cut-out eye-holes, will beg for mini-snickers...
Given the curious one-off nature of those daylong specials--both of which produced monster returns if you bought bushels of stock the day after--some sellers are simply trying to raise enough cash for the expected mini-crash. Others, mindful that it has been a super market for tech all year, are anxious to take something off the table ahead of a quick sell-off that might wipe out those gains...
...Herm brings his mini-sermon to a quick close. There is a scuffle and a muted shout, and the horde empties almost instantaneously into the fleet of cars. Out the open windows you can hear strains of September's inescapable novelty hit, Lou Bega's mildly salacious Mambo No. 5: "A little bit of Monica in my life/ A little bit of Erica by my side... / A little bit of Sandra in the sun/ A little bit of Mary all nightlong." The kids sing along. But not as loudly as they did in Club...
...problem for teachers and administrators has been to combat entrenched stereotypes of all the houses. "House A tends to view itself as a mini-BB and N [Buckingham, Browne and Nichols, a private high school in Cambridge] and Fundamental wants to be Matignon [a Catholic high school in Cambridge]," notes bilingual program teacher Arnold Clayton. "The Academy's reputation is that it is a house for foreigners and immigrants. But we've had the salutatorian the past two years...
Millennium hopscotches the world in vignettes, making regions characters in a global mini-series (and paying ample attention to non-Western areas). It eschews Ken Burnsian still lifes for a tarantella of computer animation, film clips, re-enactments and folk performances, whirling impatiently like the dervishes and dancers it uses to maximum effect. This mix can shock us into seeing the present in the past, as when Isaacs crosscuts modern Italian hipsters and preening Renaissance Florentines. The conventional re-enactments, however, are like a forced march to colonial Williamsburg...