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...investment bank's plush office on Canary Wharf on Sept. 15, only to be told that the firm was out of business and that they should look for another job, some of them did what any number of their colleagues around town have been doing for years: they threw a party. On the equity-trading floor, the internal PA system known as the "hoot" blared out the R.E.M. song "It's the End of the World as We Know It." And then, after collecting up their personal possessions, dozens of the Lehmanites crossed the concourse to the pub just opposite...
...bench, the Crazies would taunt him, chanting, “in-Hale, ex-Hale.” Creative and devilish. So devilish.Then, in 1984, Maryland’s Herman Veal was accused of sexually assaulting a fellow student. In the game at Cameron Indoor, the Blue Devil women collectively threw 1000 pairs of panties onto the court while yelling a collection of cheers I can’t print—although I’d love to. And Duke isn’t even a big school. It’s a private college known more, like Harvard...
...helped off of the field. IVY ROUNDUP While only half of the weekend’s matchups did not feature Ivy-on-Ivy competition, league competitors certainly made some unexpected waves. Cornell pulled off a stunning upset of a depleted Lehigh squad in Bethlehem, Penn. as quarterback Nathan Ford threw a 20-yard touchdown strike with time expiring to give the Big Red the 25-24 win. The victory came just one week after Cornell dropped championship hopeful Yale. The Bulldogs struggled as well in week three, squandering a 14-point fourth quarter lead. Although Holy Cross quarterback Dominic Randolph...
...Boy’s orders, Ollie had been following Felicity for days. Now, having cornered her at the fairground’s model train ride, he felt ready to approach her.Before Ollie could do so, however, a man dashed up to the platform and with a howl of despair threw himself in front of the oncoming train.Unfortunately, the fairground ride was already slowing down. It pulled to a stop a good foot and a half before the man’s twitching form.After craning his neck to judge the damage outisde, the engineer shook his head disgustedly and spat...
That virtue died with the baby boom, but it had been ailing ever since the Depression, argues cultural historian David Tucker in The Decline of THRIFT in America. That crisis, he writes, invited economists to recast THRIFT as "the contemptible vice which threw sand in the gears of our consumer economy." A White House report in 1931 urged parents to let children pick out their own clothes and furniture, thereby creating in the child "a sense of personal as well as family pride in ownership, and eventually teaching him that his personality can be expressed through things." These days...