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There is surely a need for more extensive information about these clubs in order to demystify them and explain their presence in undergraduate social life. This should prove invaluable to students who deserve a more thorough understanding of the peculiar institutions in their midst. Last weekend’s misleading scare-mongering aimed at visiting pre-frosh is not the way to go about this worthy task...
...Howard knew his company had a problem when he found himself dreading the good times. His firm, Sioux Chief Manufacturing of Peculiar, Mo., makes water-hammer arresters, which stop pipes from clanging. When demand periodically surged, the 350-person company was overwhelmed trying to handle the workload. "We had to do a lot of overtime, pull people off other departments, beg customers to take partial delivery of orders," says Howard, 61, Sioux Chief's materials manager. "It cost us money...
...Cramer (Simon & Schuster; May 13), giving it a starred review. "Wall Street's most notorious bull bares all in this typically over-the-top memoir. If Alan Greenspan was the superego of the '90s economy, Cramer was surely its libido. This memoir hopscotches between his trademark hyperbole and a peculiar form of self-abnegation (he never seems happier than when flagellating himself). Wall Street-savvy readers will particularly enjoy Cramer's blow-by-blow account of the late-'90s market. The IPO for Cramer's financial e-rag, TheStreet.com, was one of the decade's cultural touchstones. Cramer's unique...
...Downing and his subjects sometimes intimate it is. If the insights made available by a spiritual institution are separate?and bigger?than the imperfect individuals who achieve and transmit them, that means they're still valid even after those individuals lose the thread and mess up. American Zen, that peculiar hybrid of Japanese and American sensibilities that was planted on California's shores in the '60s by Suzuki, Baker and others, may have been damaged by the scandals and embarrassments that Downing chronicles, but that's a far cry from saying it was done in by them...
...Phil C. Ballinger ’04, who after a summer editing Let’s Go spends all his free time soliciting female patrons of the Wrap, has started noticing some peculiar correspondences between the women he picks up there and the establishment’s food. “Both the chicks and the burritos are hot in some places and disturbingly cold in others,” he complains. “Furthermore, there are some spots that are bone-dry and others that are oddly soggy?...