Word: vacationer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...culture extravaganza. Seven years later, it's the most popular vacation destination in the world. The obvious question: why? How can a place that allegedly has prostitutes cavorting on the Strip, rednecks losing their family savings at the slot machines and streets burdened with violent crime attract your average vacationer? Because that, my friends, is an urban legend that had a hold on our imagination until about two years ago--and the myth has finally been exploded once and for all. (I credit every major news magazine that runs a "The New Las Vegas" story when they...
"It's all part of their plan to force us to give money. Since our schedule is different from all other schools, we have to spend all our time with Harvard people. We vacation with Harvard people, so we marry Harvard people. Then at our 25th reunion we fork over...
A fellow conspiracy theorist had a more moderate, if less idealistic, explanation. "There's an understanding between Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 and the only Cancun vacation company that's open during our spring break. He gets a kickback for every Harvard student that vacations there. But...
However, if you're a student whose classes meet through reading period, who has four finals and four final papers, two of which are due right after winter break, and dreams of a week-long Thanksgiving break and a fall semester that ends in December, you might want to switch...
Apparently the rest of the country spends the morning after Thanksgiving sitting in front of the television, mesmerized by beefy men scurrying about a football field. I also hear that quite a few people check out sales at department stores that Friday morning. But who needs Penn State or Bloomingdale...