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Some organizations have even begun to offer massage as a paid employee perk-up. At Vanderbilt University in Nashville, addled workers can get on-site soothing. At Merrill Lynch's Manhattan headquarters, a therapist is on staff. Steve Herfield, president of Manhattan Temporaries, pays for up to two minimassages a week for each of his twelve employees. "Some were skeptical at first," he recalls. "Now they'd like it every day. It's a real break and a real lift." Not always, however. Some therapists report that staffers occasionally are left so relaxed that they nod off at their desks...
Small wonder. Inspecting convention sites is the most popular perk in Democratic politics. Limousines pick up committee members at the airport. Sirens wailing, police motorcades escort them from location to location, local traffic be jammed. Sometimes the visit turns into a kind of Main Street Club Med: giddy committee members rode a riverboat up the Potomac, sipped champagne on an antique-locomotive ride to the Truman Library in Independence, Mo., and donned balloon hats and leis to feast on pork and lobster at a Texas luau...
...Remember, walkin' in the sand") and the sly taunts of the Angels ("My boyfriend's back, he's gonna save my reputation/ If I were you I'd take a permanent vacation"). They squirm a bit at the references to J.F.K.'s assassination and the Viet Nam War, then perk up for so-fine evocations of Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner and Janis Joplin. The '60s and some of its prime shakers are dead, but the decade's survivors figure they can revive it by repackaging it. Beehive is a cherry Coke cabaret show with plenty of fizz, American Graffiti without...
...glass beaker that contains a Madagascar hissing cockroach. Walking along one of the facility's narrow, institutional-green corridors, Mathematician Ronald Graham effortlessly juggles six spinning white balls. Some days the balls are black. Not long ago, in a nearby office, a shimmying belly dancer tried to perk up a brooding scientist who was convinced that he had lost his zest for research. Since its founding on New Year's Day 1925, Bell Labs--AT&T's peerless research and development arm--has been bubbling with creative unorthodoxy. "To work here," says one researcher, "you have to let your hair...
...question "Is the rumor true?" regarding the special treatment of athletes at Harvard. Rumor? Kurzman obviously did a lot of legwork researching this editorial. Better meals? The Varsity Club training table abolished in 1969. Athletes eat the same meals as everyone else (although in much greater quantities). Tutoring, another perk Kurzman cites, is available to athletes only through the Study Council, the Writing Center, etc. While the employees of the Athletic Department are predominantly athletes, it also employs other students and senior citizens. Most athletes at Harvard receive financial aid and need to work in order to pay for their...