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...will be closing soon for major renovations, serious “law types” decked out in rec-specs and headbands flock to the open court on weekday afternoons. The decrepit gym with bars on the windows and crusty red pads lining the walls gives this game an old-school ambiance. Given the frequency of cheap fouls and grumbling, arguments arise consistently, and battling a prosecutor-in-training never ends well. “There’s not a whole lot of athleticism here,” says D. Allen Floyd II, a law student and Hemenway regular...

Author: By Nathaniel F. Houghteling and Alyssa N. Wolff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: King of the Courts | 4/28/2005 | See Source »

...me—I love the song. Whenever I hear the lurching guitar progression and the aw-shucks lyrics (“Preppy girls never looked at me / Why should they? / I ain’t nobody, got nothing in my pocket,” etc.), I beam with old-school geek pride and want to get drunk off one beer and run across the Yard...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Youth Culture Deflowered Me | 4/15/2005 | See Source »

Dizzee’s video is a welcome reprieve from the conspicuous consumption, macho posturing, and glib misogyny of too many hip-hop videos. With “Dream,” Dizzee proves that you can kick it on an old-school (or maybe pre-school) tip and still bring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POP SCREEN: Music Videos | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

...half a dozen still using the old tracks. "Banked track is the sport of dinosaurs," says flat-track pioneer Lacy Attuso, a.k.a. Whiskey L'Amour of the Texas Rollergirls in Austin. "We're the new wave." Attuso, who is a p.r. exec by day, says the Rollergirls are creating "a coalition of the willing" that will hash out official flat-track rules in Chicago this summer. And the league's inaugural meeting comes none too soon. "The injury rate in flat track is extremely high," warns Tim Patten, owner of the old-school Bay City Bombers. "Their play gets dirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Derby Does Dallas--and Austin and Seattle, Too | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

...Beijing economic planners eager to set up a local VC firm to jump-start the country's technology sector, and in 1999?with $5 million in state investment and a board of directors made up of senior government ministers?NewMargin entered the market as an odd hybrid of old-school state planning and free-market hustle. It now counts telecom giants like Motorola and Alcatel among its investors and this year, according to Feng, will triple its investment capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ferreting Out the Phonies | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

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