Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turned out, no. At a Sigma Alpha Epsilon convention in Cincinnati last summer, Rothschild created such a vulgar scene complaining to the hotel desk that his fraternity brothers decided to check into his background. They learned that another guy named Rothschild had pulled off some funny business at the SAE chapter in Berkeley years before. After they demanded that he prove his identity, Maurice skipped town. He showed up in Bronxville, N.Y., to pick up his belongings from a rented room and has not been sighted since...
...really good idea to have an orientation period. Of course, the generic questions--what's your name, where are you from, what classes are you taking--are awkward, but it's a way to meet people. You meet someone totally different, you have nothing in background common to them and it gives you something...
Their pick: Seattle Mayor Charles T. Royer, a Democrat from the Pacific seaboard with a background in journalism...
Their pick: Seattle Mayor Charles T. Royer, a Democrat from the Pacific seaboard with a background in journalism...
Their pick: Seattle Mayor Charles T. Royer, a Democrat from the Pacific seaboard with a background in journalism...