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...money on it). But Monica might. You don't have sex, or a reasonable facsimile of it, with a man who has his own standing army in order to relieve existential loneliness or find a soul mate. You do it for the record books, the thrill of it all. It's like the dog who walked on its hind legs: it's not that it's done well, but that it's done at all. Sex in the study next to the Oval Office while the most powerful man on earth discussed military action in a foreign country with...
...remaining classes, you guys have the good life. You spoiled rugrats will experience the thrill of roaming Ethernet, which enables you to connect your computer to any network jack in any room on campus...
Investors buy prospects, and the prospects are for a year of record earnings at Intel and another year of monster growth at Yahoo. But the volatility in tech and the Net in particular has increased dramatically, to the point where only thrill seekers can bank solely on the latter. At one point last week, with Yahoo up 90 points, to 443, I let go some stock, and was happy to buy it back some 100 points lower a day later, when, despite reporting blowout earnings, it had fallen with the rest of the Net stocks...
However, the procrastinator can take the crunch-time of exams as a blessing in disguise and amend her behavior to minimize procrastination and hit that unopened Core textbook. It will be difficult; old habits (especially ones with the short-term thrill that procrastination possesses) die hard. But if sufficiently motivated, the procrastinator can suck it up and take the plunge this reading period (all those exams and papers will drive an unproductive soul to desperate measures) and go up against the mother of GW haunts: Cabot library...
...scandal. "I'm not going to say that I did this because I'm some great Christian," she told the New Yorker during the scandal's first week. "I did it because it's f__ing fascinating! I love dish! I live for dish!" Goldberg was the mixer, the thrill seeker who makes mischief merely for the fun of seeing...