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Gary Pokodner of Annapolis, Md., gets paid to vacation. Pokodner, an electrical engineer, stays at four-star hotels for free, eats steak dinners gratis and goes on casino sprees totally on the house. For his trouble, he makes $20,000 a year in his spare time. How does he do it? Pokodner, 44, is a veteran secret shopper, employed by cruise lines and hotel chains to travel undercover and evaluate their customer service...
...Last Saturday, I showed up in Washington, D.C. at a friend's house with the unopened box. I didn't have any access to my own tools or my rat's nest of spare wires. Nor did I have hours to figure out how everything fit together. It didn't matter; in no time my friends had set up the projector and were aiming it at a white wall where a picture had been hanging. My only chore was to pull the remote control from the box and press the power button...
Headed for the States and thinking of renting a car? May is one of the best months for deals, report the experts at hotwire.com, a discount travel site. That's when the big agencies expand their fleets for summer and have cars to spare. If you're traveling later, you can still save money with these tips...
...worries about Hilles’ architecture. If there is a unique building on the College’s campus, it is Hilles. Stepping inside is like opening the cover of a copy of Architectural Digest from 1965; the building has an incredible unity of design, its clean and spare modernist lines extending from the gross structure of the building—evocative, in a way, of traditional Japanese homes—into the details of its original furniture. It is simultaneously massive and weightless, airy but enclosed. Unlike the other major Harvard libraries, its focal point is a beautiful conduit...
...Harvard varsity lightweights waited for the verdict. Harvard, Yale, and Cornell were a blur of red and blue across the line, eight men right across from one another, battling for an inch of space in a race that left no room to spare. There was no arm-pumping and no celebratory shouts from any of the three boats—nobody knew...