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Often the tip goes into a tip pool, and you get paid at the end of the week. It's illegal for a salaried employee to participate in the tips, but many managers and owners do. Managers can skim a little off the top, and the waiters never see it. One of waiters' most common complaints is that their paycheck is never right. At the end of the week, I know what my paycheck should be, roughly, within $25 either way. If it isn't, then something is fishy...
...swimmers still seemed to think it was evening, referring to the meet as happening 'tonight.' Just what NBC wanted, so viewers in the U.S. can enjoy Michael's exploits live and in prime time. Not a morning person, Phelps got up at 6:15 to swim in the pool at the Village, "just to wake him up," said Bowman. "We won't do that again during the meet, but for the first race, I wanted to make sure he was ready...
...Opening sports to the masses not only widened the talent pool but fostered unity in the country's teams. "I've noticed a real difference," says journalist Paradinas. "Before, you'd only read about a few individual, 'name' athletes, and our national teams were made up of these name players, these little islands." This year, the European Cup victory came "despite the players' regional differences - because they knew how to integrate themselves...
...what can a press pool, liberated from nearly eight years of "vacations" in dusty Crawford, Texas, expect in Hawaii? First and foremost, some time at Hawaii's justifiably famous beaches. Obama, who spent much of his childhood near Hawaii's best-known beach, Waikiki, is a big fan of bodysurfing. His favorite spot is a place called Sandy's Beach on the windward side of the island. Much of Oahu outside of Waikiki is for locals - in fact, the island has permitted the construction of only four hotels outside of Waikiki - and the eastern coast, where Sandy's is found...
RENTS FOR $2,600/NIGHT TWIN PALMS Art appreciation doesn't come cheap. Sinatra, above in 1964, in his four-bedroom manse, which has a piano-shaped pool...