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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advisory board has been around for a long time. The companies are leaders in their respective fields," says Nicolas P. Repsinas, who began as director of the forty-year-old Center for Housing Studies in March...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: KSG Centers Tie Academia And `Real World' Together | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

...Eileen P. Harrity '99, president of the Irish Cultural Society, said she was wistful Robinson was selected as the Commencement speaker this year, rather than next year...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Robinson Will Give Address At Graduation | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

Apparently, freedom from the responsibility to divulge actual actions is widely appreciated. Some even count on the vagueness. Ken G. Haig '99 admits that because of the ambiguity, "people give you the benefit of the doubt." Jack P. Donahue '01 agrees, confiding it's "to protect pride, because then people can assume you did more than you did." However, most see the ambiguity as either a way to protect privacy or as a concession to politeness. "Especially girls don't want to say, 'yeah, I fucked this guy last night' or 'yeah, I went down on this guy,'" insists Begnaud...

Author: By Brian J. Norton, | Title: the truth about HOOKING UP | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

...survey displayed, opinions lean towards the "hook-up" as a more serious run-in. A belligerent P. Randy Seybold '01 demands that "making out means kissing. Period." Jimmy J. Meeks '01 enforces the more sexual meaning of "to hook up," saying that "hooking up definitely implies a horizontal position." And in addition to the general perception of "making out" as a lesser act, there is a certain stigma connecting the expression to the late 1950s and drive-ins, or as Sam T. Mouton '01 angrily declares, "Making out is so Junior High." Allison C. Connolly '01 agrees that...

Author: By Brian J. Norton, | Title: the truth about HOOKING UP | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

...Even chances are given when a stake is placed on:.. Noir, meaning any black number that turns up. 1964 A. WYKES Gambling ix. 215 The European betting table is divided into six areas labelled pair, impair, passe, manque, rouge, and noir (even, odd, high, low, red black). 1971 P. O'NEIL-DUNNE Roulette for Millions iv. 36 You may be regarded as socially inferior in French casinos, if you do not understand the following French expressions: Rouge: Red Noir: Black Impair: Odds...

Author: By Adam W. Preskill, | Title: WHAT IS NOIR? | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

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