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...surrounded by big-rig trucks. Names such as “A. Sarno & Co.,” “D’Arrigo Brothers” and “Marco Tomato” were the only decorative flourishes. Getting out of the car, I stepped into a pile of lychees that had seen better, fresher days. The stench of rotting tomatoes that littered the ground nearby was, shall we say, aromatic...
...Work. These two words actually knew each other in the roaring '90s, when companies had to pile on the good times to attract and keep the best workers. But in our postbubble corporate coal mines, fun is a memory. Nearly 3 million workers have lost jobs, and the rest of us are nervously glancing over our shoulder in the midst of 60-hour workweeks...
...have preferred to come to Harvard. But the wisdom of our admit office is that they are not suited to be in our class.” Even high-scoring recruits frequently get held up for the same reasons that non-athletes with perfect SAT scores find the reject pile. “Some coaches say I did an AI calculation on this [rejected] student and get frustrated,” McGrath Lewis says...
...Adams House resident Ryan M. Rappa ’05 said the blame for the cyber pile-up lay more with those sending messages than...
...feminine.” Before she started with the scissors, my thick hair was down to the middle of my back. I swear I could hear a soft thud as the stylist’s sharp scissors gently sliced off one lock at a time. As I watched the pile of hair on the floor continue to grow, I was seized with a temporary paranoia that mirrors would start to crack when I looked in them...