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...there was a guy who came in three times a night several times a week with a different pick-up and never left a tip. I finally told him my living depended on tips and would he mind using another restaurant to do his sex scouting? He left, but I was stepping out of place and was reprimanded by the manager. The only way we survived was by having muffin fights afterhours, which was not a very good solution to the problem...
Thomas started playing soccer in Gambia when he was five, and because he was one of the smallest in the pick-up games, his first position was goalie. As he got bigger he moved to fullback and then halfback, and he didn't become a regular lineman until he was fifteen, when the Augustinian Soccer Club, the champions of the first division amateur league, decided that they needed another forward...
...Nick's still survives, obviously no longer a white tie and championship team, but a respectable pick-up team composed largely of ex Ivy League players. Harvard, Princeton and Yale graduates still dominate the St. Nick's roster, as they did fifty years ago, but of the eleven H-Y-P players on the team, nine are products of mediocre to miserable Yale and Princeton teams...
...institution. The introduction of women into a tightly-knit society of male privilege presented a unique opportunity for a sociological study and the two women began accumulating data. Not content with simply interviewing the 96 undergraduates in their survey, Schwartz and Lever underwent mixers, beer guzzling, weekend trips, and pick-up attempts with their Yale subjects. Indeed, the data accumulated so rapidly that Schwartz's expertise served as ground-work for the well-known Student Guide to Sex on Campus (written by a group which could only be found amid the earnest self-consciousness of Yale--the Student Committee...
Papagianis was born in Epiros, Greece, and soccer was his first sport. His house was three blocks from the local stadium, and from the time he was five he played in pick-up games after school...