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Buddy Vanderhoop, the ship's captain, was unfamiliar with the boat and believed the battery could stand the large electrical usage...
...suited before opening an account. None too soon. Day traders' favorite stocks have long been Internet and other high-tech companies prized for their big price swings. Since April, Net stocks have fallen on hard times, revealing many formerly brilliant day traders to be little more than lucky novices. Unfamiliar with strategies like selling short or hedging with options, many have lost big and quit. But the flushing out is far from complete...
...unfamiliar section of the tour script, by Harvard standards, was the social scene speech: Greek life engaged "only" one third of the campus, we were informed, "so you can see that it doesn't control it." This seemed a particularly strange part of the shpiel, though the high-school students seemed to absorb it with no noticeable resistance. As a Harvard student I am by no means an expert on fraternity and sorority life, but if you could get a third of the Harvard students to do anything it would cause significant ripples. The closest examples would...
Hashim Thaci is on unfamiliar ground. The Albanian guerrilla leader, once the bane of Serbian forces in Kosovo's hinterlands, has arrived triumphant in Pristina and is undergoing his first rite of passage as an aspiring politician: dinner with TIME. Looking out across a table laden with the best postwar cuisine available--three platters of chicken franks, canned tuna and tomatoes--the 30-year-old rebel answers questions with a voice at once shy and calculating. Trying his best to toe the Western line, he assures us repeatedly, "We will live up to the obligations given...
...those of you unfamiliar with l'affaire Salinger, here are the highlights. In 1972 Yale undergrad Maynard wrote an article called "An Eighteen-Year-Old Looks Back on Life." Salinger, who was 53, read the piece and started sending Maynard letters declaring the two were soul mates. Maynard dropped out and moved in with Salinger, making herself throw up, as she puts it. This is interesting because so much of what Maynard does now seems to make other people throw up (New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd called her a "leech" woman and the National Review referred...