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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Regardless of theme, tradeshows have a culture all their own, and I received several important lessons regarding show procedure in short order. The first, and by far the most important, lesson: gather as many free mugs, bags, t-shirts, thermoses, Tupperware sets and pens, and enter as many raffles for free gear as is humanly possible. It is near impossible to leave such an event without at least one bag with a giant vendor logo filled to the brim with such items, which one can then distribute to friends and family as birthday and holiday gifts. If your significant other...

Author: By David S. Hirsch, | Title: Marketed in Manhattan | 7/18/2003 | See Source »

...went home in the evening, purchased a twopenny loaf at the baker's, and with the water from the pump made my supper; I then wrapped myself up in my great-coat, and laid down on the floor and slept till morning, when, on another loaf and a mug of water, I made my breakfast. From this regimen I feel no inconvenience whatever. Finding I can live in this manner, I have formed a determination never to prostitute my press to the purposes of corruption and abuse of this kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citizen Ben's 7 Great Virtues | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...Maybe my columnist mug shot introduced me to some of the campus, but for the most part, the only immortality I’ve won has been on behalf of the people I wrote about, not me. I recorded a bit of history, but didn’t make...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Life of Brian: Confessions of a Would-Be Harvard Man | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

...tray on table. Honey Nut Cheerios, a mug of coffee, and two paper cups full of brown, caffeinated goodness. I should be on the front of a Wheaties...

Author: By Kristi L. Jobson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Confessions of a Caffeine-a-holic | 4/24/2003 | See Source »

...Fade back into consciousness and feel around my Yaffa block bedside table for my stained Harvard coffee mug. It’s about to be filled with straight black coffee. Now I can get out of bed and stumble to the shower with at least half-open eyes...

Author: By Kristi L. Jobson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Confessions of a Caffeine-a-holic | 4/24/2003 | See Source »

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