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...girls from good schools. Many sign up for the money, which they use to buy expensive designer clothes. But according to Rika Kayama, a psychiatrist who specializes in young women's difficulties, the high school girls are as eager for anonymous companionship as the men are for a sexual thrill. "I do this to kill time," says one, "and because my friend asked me to do it." She is 18, just graduated from a Christian high school in Tokyo, and makes about $16 an hour. Sometimes the work is unpleasant. "The old guys want to talk...
Many students interviewed said that the festive environment surrounding the 100th Boston Marathon added to the thrill of the event...
...temperate East Coast, I've grown accustomed to the state's extremes--of topography, of climate, of behavior--and even somewhat proud of them. When the highway speed limit was removed last winter (not increased, removed), I cheered. When wolf packs were reintroduced into Yellowstone, I felt a wild thrill. And though the tourist board will tell you otherwise, there are indeed a lot of weirdos here: outcasts and outsiders of every stripe, a lot of them refugees from milder climes where their eccentricities drew stares (Ted Turner and Jane Fonda have a ranch nearby, not to mention...
This strategy does not thrill all of Dole's followers, who have their own races to worry about. "As a Dole delegate, do I want to spend the money on Dole, or do I want to spend the money on Tom Libous in November?" New York State senator Thomas Libous told the Associated Press. But in expensive states like New York, Dole has little choice but to ask for such favors, and California's Wilson is expected to try directing a similar fund-raising effort...
...Yard. They won't be part of the normal flux of 500-people-per-group tourists whose pictures we have all walked through while they invent new posing positions with the John Harvard statue. Neither will they be part of the teenie-bopper Harvard Model Congress crowd whose biggest thrill is chilling at the T-stop. No, this weekend is Junior Parents Weekend. Hundreds of curious, concerned, but also proud parents have travelled long distances to take a picture with John Harvard, grab a cup of coffee at Au Bon Pain and see what Harvard is all about...