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Though this weekend is the final regular season stint for the Harvard men's hockey team, the season is far from over...
...Carlos has served a twelve-year stint with the Yellow Cab Co., working nights. He claims no divine source of inspiration in choosing the job. After emigrating from El Salvador 20 years back, he found himself in need of work. Getting his taxi license, known in cab jargon as a "hacking license," was the obvious choice. "No matter how bad the economy is," he says, "you can always get a job as a cab driver." It is steady work, which he enjoys mostly because of the variety of people he meets...
...campaign where all of the candidates' skeletons have been marching out of their respective closets, McCain must be feeling left out. How can he compete with Bush's alleged cocaine habit or Al Gore's marijuana stint? He needs pizzazz for the polls. He needs...
...hesitate. On Wednesday, a group of black Secret Service agents filed a class action suit against the agency, charging that they were passed over for promotion because of their race. One of the plaintiffs is Reginald Moore, a 16-year veteran of highly selective and dangerous assignments, including a stint as a lead agent in President Clinton's protective detail. Moore says he was poised to take over a managerial post, but was preempted when a white agent Moore had originally trained got the job instead...
Last week, after a short stint with the Warriors, Starks was traded to the Bulls in a deal headlined by Toni Kukoc's departure for Philadelphia. For fans in New York, however, the deal was highlighted by its reckless sense of irony that sent a favorite--no, a proud part of our history--to the enemy...