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Added to the charges against the man, Joseph Macchiaruo, was possession of a deadly weapon--after police found a solid steel pipe, welded to a chain and connected to a padlock, on his person...
...with Grolier's reincarnation as a serious small business, its clientele has changed. Gone are the pipe-smoking Advocate members and loitering Harvard professors...
...about respecting the stone, about being absolutely core. The stone, according to Volcom president Richard Woolcott, 33, "represents the buzz from a good skate session or riding a 10-ft. wave at pipe. The stone represents the euphoric state of riding...
...million in annual sales. "Look at Nike. They're the best marketing machine in America, and they couldn't buy their way into skateboarding." Ironic that in the pre-nose-ring generation, Nike invented core. Coreness can reach ridiculous extremes. Almost every Velcro Valley firm has erected a half-pipe skateboard ramp on its premises. "We used to have one right out in the middle of the place," says Volcom's Woolcott, "but skateboards were, like, hitting people at their desks." Bummer...
Honest immersion in one's studies, of the type which writing a good thesis demands, for example, is a pipe dream both during the semester and during reading period, in large part because it is not the objective of college to inspire such focus. The raw amount of reading, writing, problem sets we have assigned to us indicates that the emphasis in college lies on quantity and method, not quality. Rigid paper deadlines, which are an otherwise meaningless convention, illustrate this point...