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After he bids the teacher farewell, he calls over to sixth-grader Genevah G. J. Alphonse Dalina, who is watching a low-key pick-up basketball game...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Charter Against Bureaucracy | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

Although all three brothers haven't played together since they were young, Steve remembers playing 'shinny' (a Canadian term for pick-up hockey) with Mark and Dominic...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Lewis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Gets Some Moores | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

...under one hour. And if you are too busy to drop of your video in at a special kosmo drop-off bin, they'll come right back and pick it up. Kozmo's Boston service, which started last week, delivers movies for $2.99 (keep it for two nights) and pick-up is $1 extra. The waiting, it seems, is the hardest part...

Author: By F.g. Tilney, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Kozmo.com Hits Boston (Finally!) | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...looks, boatloads of money, great sex, an adorable child and a London-esque apartment in New York City. When they attend an ostentatious Christmas ball thrown by a wealthy friend (Sydney Pollack), Alice gets plastered and finds herself dancing with a skeezy Hungarian player; he whispers cheesy pick-up lines in her hear and she mumbles incoherent responses (not only does she mumble them, she mumbles them so damn s-l-o-w-l-y that you have to wonder whether Kidman was simply exhausted by Kubrick's repetitive takes). Meanwhile, Bill is entertained by a bevy of models before...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kubrick Shuts One Eye | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

...shrinking of open spaces, the ubiquity of the two-earner family and the pervasive fear of crime. Baby-boomer parents may look back wistfully at their own childhood, when playing sports was a matter of heading to the corner sandlot or the neighborhood park after school for a pick-up game. But the sandlot's been filled in by a four-bedroom Cape Cod with a two-story atrium. To pay for the Cape Cod, Mom and Dad are both working, and with Mom and Dad both working, the kids are signed up for extended-day sessions at school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Crazy Culture Of Kids Sports | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

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