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Perhaps the most improved squad in the ECAC, Dartmouth has continued to rack up bragging rights throughout the league and in non-conference action...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dartmouth Manhandles M. Hockey, 7-0 | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...host bar is part thrill, part danger. The thrill, of course, is somewhat sexual: the guys are attentive, hunky and dangle the possibility they might be available after the clubs close. The danger is financial: after entrance fees, host commissions and nosebleed-priced drinks, a customer can rack up a $10,000 bill in a single night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rent Boys | 1/21/2001 | See Source »

...Mitch Daniels sold off wedding gifts he couldn't return, made a job applicant split the bill for a lunch interview and years ago fished coins from a tavern toilet to pay for a pitcher of beer. Even as a millionaire drug-company executive, he buys suits off the rack and golfs at the Indianapolis, Ind., club with the lowest dues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economic Slowdown: Bush's Budget Director: The Penny Pincher In Chief | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...Although undiagnosed dyslexia had prevented him from learning to read until he was in the third grade, by high school David was a pretty good student, an excellent debater and so proficient a bridge player that he hired himself out as a paid tournament partner for adults trying to rack up master points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Me Boies! | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...whether it still makes sense today. I tried to convince her that if her schoolmates were setting up a system to elect a student president, they might give each class one vote so that the candidates would spend time appealing to all grade levels rather than just trying to rack up votes among friends their age. That didn't convince her, but she did agree that if those were the rules, then you should abide by them once the results were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: The First Draft of History | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

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