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...game's popularity among aspiring professionals? It is not a substitute singles night - many of the players are married. Neither does it involve gambling, which is banned in China. Instead, as 25-year-old bond trader Chen Jinghua confides, players are addicted to the game's heady mix of technology, power and wealth. "I can practice manipulating people and learning how to persuade or hoodwink my opponents into doing what I want, skills that I have to use everyday," she says. Since joining the club, Jinghua has met many like-minded ambitious professionals, and those friendships often open...
...religious apathy or antipathy, the final stretch before Christmas, and the impending Christmas break, is still greeted with unmitigated glee. Certainly, Christmas in America has lost most of its religious flavor, as atheists, secular Jews, and other non-Christians all eagerly mark with merriment the Yuletide occasion. Given this mix of irreligion and desire nevertheless to celebrate a gift-giving holiday, Christmas festivities, decorations, and attitudes around campus have taken on an eccentric flavor...
...receives a chatroom invitation in lieu of being invited to the website’s V.I.P. launch party in New York, he and Dwight embark on a mission to put temp-turned-corporate manager Ryan in his place. Best Line: Andy, “They say you should never mix business with pleasure. So then explain to me how a putt-putt golf company operates.” —Nayeli E. Rodriguez is a sophomore in Currier House and the incoming Features editor. She aspires to a career as a drunk dialer...
...writing impedes the viewer’s connection with the characters. Fortunately, the audience hardly needs to feel a total affinity for Cole and Chambers in order to enjoy “The Bucket List.” As an escape from the drudgery of holiday shopping and wintery mix, this film succeeds admirably. If nothing else, Nicholson and Freeman may just convince their audience to take time to pause during life and indulge—it’s impossible to know when everything may come crashing down. —Staff writer Eric M. Sefton can be reached...
...gift shop sells hemp dog collars, Outward Hound folding travel bowls, chews that act as doggy dental floss, and Santa-themed holiday pet bandanas. There's a vet clinic and an obedience school on site. In the brightly lit kennels, where a one-year-old fluffy little Bichon Frise mix might sit sweetly alongside an adorable stuffed gray monkey on a pink blanket in a two-room suite, you're already so charmed that it seems perfectly logical to pay $135 for a pound...