Word: semis
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...game. The first night I played, I lost $150.” Instead of getting discouraged by his initial disappointment, he was determined to learn how to play the game. Three months later he won his money back, and more. He started playing poker at a “semi-professional” level, using the money that he won to support himself. It was a job that he would later regret...
Unlike some so-called humor publications—the Lampoon, a Sorrento Square semi-secret social organization which used to occasionally publish a magazine, definitely springs to mind—the Onion is readily accessible to anyone and everyone living in America today...
...Turkey Shoot.” After months of sucking up, the month-long process kicks off with position papers and the “schmooze,” a series of meals and coffees with assorted Crimson higher-ups. The final week consists of interviews in front of a semi-circle firing squad of outgoing execs asking a series of belligerent questions. Students hoping for a spot on the Lampoon undergo a similarly harrowing process. The idea that becoming assistant editor of a college newspaper or joining the business board of a humor magazine demands such a stressful process...
...can’t distribute holier-than-thou criticisms about the nature and being of the opposite sex without virulent claims of being from a backwards (and often backwoods) society. Men can’t pin individual shortcomings on semi-universal anatomical and biological traits without having their ethics and intelligence called into question...
...bond market closed early Friday, and trading has been light following the terrorist attack. The Fed, meanwhile, on Friday announced it was injecting $81.25 billion into the banking system, after pledging another $70.2 billion on Thursday. But the plumbing at the heart of America's largest financial market remains semi-functional. "The financial system is fragile and this problem needs to be cleared up as soon as possible," says a federal official...