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...days in academia - Match Day. Every graduating med student must submit his or her top residency program choices to a national database; a computer then combines the students' choices with the hospitals' preferences and spits out a match - which both sides are obliged to abide by. On the third Thursday in March, these graduates find out where they will serve their first few years as a hospital intern and resident. It's a day that can define careers - and make or break relationships...
...some universities' special Match Day traditions: "On the third Thursday in March, medical schools across the country held gatherings to unveil the computer's results. Some schools waited for the designated hour, then unleashed the students to retrieve the envelopes with their results and braced for a stampede. Others, including Vanderbilt University, called students at random to the front of a lecture hall. On the way, each students dropped a dollar bill into a fishbowl as compensation for the suffering that the last person was to endure while waiting. One by one, they received and opened their envelopes, leaned into...
Bernard Madoff's prepared statement, delivered Thursday in U.S. District Court in New York...
...bombs. Specifically, late night T-bombs of the BC—booty call—variety. Now, like any red-blooded American bro, I’m not one to protest to crucial role that the iPhone, Blackberry or T-Mobile Sidekick plays in the facilitation of the occasional Thursday night tryst here in the 02138. But Ladies, ladies, listen to a man. Sometimes you’re hanging out just pongin’ in Mather, or kickin’ it old school with a Steel Reserve from Louie’s private stock, or hitting up the gym bench...
...victims of Bernard Madoff were looking for catharsis in the court of U.S. District Judge Denny Chin, they got nothing close to it. Several of them had gathered in the large, packed courtroom in Lower Manhattan for Madoff's hearing Thursday morning, but Chin issued instructions that victims could speak only if they wanted to object to Madoff's pleading guilty to 11 counts of fraud. (Watch the video of Madoff pleads guilty...