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Striking out on your own is in some ways easier in a recession: loans are cheap, and hiring is easy. Sean O'Scannlain, 37, managed a Chicago seafood company for seven years but left to start a competing firm last July. The Sept. 11 airport closures disrupted shipments for weeks and forced him to run lean. "We're far better now for having gone through a very difficult nine or 10 months," O'Scannlain says. For Lauren Creamer, 27, of Brighton, Mass., two years of fighting the bureaucracy at a large nonprofit convinced her that she would be happier working...
Shakir, who had won the Ivy League title with a cheap single against Princeton his freshman year, came full circle with another clutch hit, this one a bloop to left that propelled Harvard into the Ivy League championship game...
...favorite Harvard moment occurred in the Bahamas during Spring Break 2002. About 30 of us found ourselves in a vast resort on Grand Bahama Island with a number of cheap-o liquor stores and a bevy of buxom high school girls. We seemed sure of ourselves, strolling about in pastel Polo shirts with a few pairs of Prada sunglasses, sipping rum-and-tonics by the sea. For all intents and purposes, I think we looked pretty cool, but after the experiences of one fateful evening, we sunk into the inevitable effluvium of dorkdom. No matter how many girls sported this...
...Sakhalin's nightlife, though diverse in its offerings?casinos, discos, cabaret shows and outdoor barbecues abound?is alcohol-driven. This being Russia, the vodka is cheap and plentiful. If you can still walk after the first?or second?bottle, try to get to Yuzhno's popular local brewery in the center of town. Higher-minded pursuits include the Sakhalin regional museum (housed in the Imperial Japanese Government Offices dating from when the Japanese controlled southern Sakhalin from 1905-45), the Russian Orthodox Church, the Chekhov Theater, street markets selling everything from wild berries to furs, and Gagarin Park, complete with...
Grossman went furthest, airing a roughly five-minute segment with a Romney stand-in (shot only from behind), getting cheap laughs in the audience over Romney’s lack of definitive policy positions...