Word: racks
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...said so far have pertained to the loud, dark, sweaty type of Harvard party. For the other type of classy party, where friends get together and perhaps go out for dinner, celebrate a birthday, a new job or another of the many achievements that Harvard students are prone to rack up, you should cc the list. Be sure to talk to the people attending the party so that each invitee knows what they are getting into. That way, if there are concerns say, about warring factions of the Undergraduate Council (wait, we have a student government?) attending the same function...
...Newton resident reports that between 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. an unknown person stole his bike which was locked to a rack in Harvard Square...
Maybe there should be a rack in record stores for Relatives of Famous Musicians. Last week it was announced that a posthumous album of the work of LINDA MCCARTNEY, whose considerable talents were widely held to exclude singing, will be released in November. Before she died earlier this year, McCartney made an album of songs she had recorded over the past 20 years. The album, Wide Prairie, could be joined in the Relatives rack by recent releases from Eagle-Eye Cherry, son of Don, brother of Neneh; Adam Cohen, son of Leonard; Bijou Phillips, daughter of Mamas & Papas John Phillips...
McGwire, 34, is the only player in history to rack up 400 home runs in fewer at bats than Ruth. And the home runs are just as big--at well over 500 ft., several ought to count as a homer and a double. His blasts are cathartic in their destruction, and the damage is sanctified giddily: the St. Louis Post-Dispatch sign he cracked with a 545-ft. homer at Busch Stadium proudly wears a giant Band-Aid, and a replacement front-porch handrail outside Wrigley Field goes unpainted to commemorate a stadium-clearing batting practice shot...
...names, passwords and other IDs required in the information age. But more Americans are discovering that it can be costly to lose control of these and other bits of personal data. Incidents of identity fraud are on the rise, with criminals stealing credit-card and Social Security numbers to rack up $750 million in charges in 1997, the General Accounting Office reported last week. The House and Senate are working on bills to stamp out the crime. In the meantime, check your credit report and disclose vital statistics only if absolutely necessary...