Word: spun
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...PfoHo ’90s dance was as packed as ever. A diverse group of students danced to hit tunes spun by Fun Czar John T. Drake ’06 and the sound of 80 freshman girls dressed as the Spice Girls screaming in unison. Other attendees relived their ’90s-style social rejection by sipping Zima in the corner...
...long limbed mannequins stalked into The Crimson’s Sanctum one by one, heads bobbing to the techno beats spun by Daniel “D.J.” J. Mandel ’08. Scotch-swilling emcee Warland “Trey” Lance Kollmer III ’07 introduced each design, often correctly...
...social good. For instance, JP Morgan allows its new analysts to defer employment for two years to participate in Teach For America (see “Those Who Can, Teach?” page 14). Bain, meanwhile, developed The Bridgespan Group, which offers analysis to non-profit organizations, and spun it off six years...
...meetings with Mosteller, the professor kept spinning a coin and recording whether it came up heads or tails, according to Vaupel.When Vaupel finally asked Mosteller why, “he gently explained that it was more random to spin a coin than to flip a coin, because a coin spun on a desk would spin many more times than a flipped coin would turn over,” Vaupel said. Mosteller further explained that it was a penny made in 1942, and thus contained alloys other than copper because of the need for copper during...
...joke inthis cunning debut film is not that a hard-boiled detective yarn is spun out in a modern high school and peopled mostly by teenagers. It's that the joke is not a joke at all but a pertinent metaphor for that vulnerable time of life when every street looks mean, every love affair could be fatal. Written in 1997, shot in 2003 (for less than $500,000) and finally released early this year, Brick is so handsomely made, so insolently assured, that you have to wonder what took the moneymen so long to realize that Johnson...