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...Harvard Alumni Office will keep a master list of student and alumni information: age, height, weight, gender, sexual orientation, estimated (or in the case of current students, potential) income. People from all over the country, all over the world will call the office. For a modest fee, they will receive the number of a promising candidate. Harvard affiliates who are married or morally opposed to matchmaking services could, also for a small fee, remove their names from the list...
...what we eat. The last decade has witnessed an explosion of restaurants filled with brass and glass, Murphy's Oil Soaped wood, Tiffany lamps and ferns, lots of ferns. Part bar, part restaurant, part amusement park, these mini-herbaria all bring us the same mediocre food at the same modest prices, the same all over the country...
Although it no longer rules the heavens (Chicago's Sears Tower, at 1,454 ft., and New York City's own World Trade Center, 1,368 ft., soar higher than the Empire State Building's now modest 1,250 ft.), the grande dame of skyscrapers is apparently still fetching enough to win a new suitor. According to the Wall Street Journal, the landmark's current owner, Prudential Insurance Co., is selling the legendary edifice for a comparatively paltry $40 million. The reported buyer: a member of the Grace family, which founded W.R. Grace...
Although only a modest fraction of the Harvard faculty has implemented the suggestions put forth in Light's first report, Light said that he is thrilled with the response. "If only 10 or 20 percent do it, that's 200 courses. If I'm helpful to even a modest number of people, I consider it a great success...
...changing light bulbs in an office building, making $225 a week. I had anxiety attacks; I was not functioning. I won the lotto, and the anxiety disappeared." An ebullient Eisenberg still lives in Brooklyn, but with an ocean view. The biggest flyer he takes these days is modest but steady betting at local racetracks...