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...Guys show off their new 9/11 tattoos memorializing their housemates; one depicts a helmet, another the Ladder 11 company patch. A masseuse stands by to give free massages; there are free tickets to the Broadway show The Music Man and a lottery for trips to Hawaii and Barbados. To unwind one evening after inspecting a gas leak, the firemen watch outtakes from The Bravest, a TV show chronicling the lives of fire fighters with real footage from New York companies; they pause the tape every few minutes to honor the men they instinctively refer to as "missing...
...think about all those things that my parents usually think about, like how old the electrical system is,” Levey confesses. “On campus, sometimes you get wrapped up with life at Harvard and lose sight of the bigger picture. Now I can walk home, unwind, see children playing outside, and remember that my whole life is not school. If I don’t do well on a paper, I’m reminded that someday I’ll have kids too, and life will go on,” she continues...
Kevin says that “every moment of every day I’m passionate about what I’m doing,” even if it’s writing his senior thesis. When this extremely talented but also extremely busy senior needs to unwind, his idea of a great party is one with some attractive girls, his roommates, and all of his friends from the Hasty Pudding and Tommy. Kevin adds, the party will “probably be one with a lot of fun Bermuda drinks like Rum Swizzles and Dark and Stormies that...
...doing the same thing somewhere in the 10,500 range. But bottoms don?t change into bounces just because they?re been at bottom for a few months - the whole decade of the '70s was a bottom, practically - and even if the Internet economy doesn?t unwind even further (which is not impossible) it takes something to get things moving in the other direction...
...first few weeks for a novice hostess can be disorienting. First of all there are the hours. You become a purely nocturnal creature, showing up for work at about 9 p.m., finishing at around 2 a.m., and then unwinding until dawn at bars like Gas Panic or higher-priced clubs like Lexington Queen. The girls earn $150 to $400 a night in salary, in addition to the perquisites and gifts that adoring customers shower on them. But in this saturnalian spectacle there are even more opportunities to burn the money. In addition to the booze, clubs and clothes, there...