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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...cigarette smoke, of nausea and human tragedy--and occasionally, of proof that hope springs eternal. Suffolk Downs is, to the uninitiated, no doubt an intimidating place, towering over East Boston, framed by the tracks of the blue line outbound for Wonderland. To the regulars, though it is a decrepit mass, it is also a place where the possibility of instant money--and more importantly, instant redemption-is omnipresent...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Lucky Strikes and Ascot Gavottes | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

...camaraderie is one of the other moderately decent things about the Connecticut gaming experience. Everyone feels bad for everyone else. The dealers who owe their lot in life to the casinos clearly feel bad for the players too. What doubtless keeps them from seeing the gaming public as a mass of self-defeating trash is that many of them play the same games they deal on their own free time. When asked if she ever plays, Annie, middle-aged with Clairol red hair, responds in hushed tones, "What the fuck else would I be doing here?" How demure...

Author: By Robert J. Coolbrith, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Reservation for One: One man, one hundred dollars and 15 hours at Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

...Store of Choice: I'd say it's not brand name, but not necessarily cheap. I think she likes the fact that she doesn't adhere to specific standards. She might go to the Salvation Army or Mass Army Navy or The Garment District and find some very nice thing there. She's still looking for a bargain, but I think she's going there to look for nice things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Wearing It Way Out: Another Fashion Dialogue | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

...course, that the English obsession had nothing to do with their rooming assignments. Ricky (as Du Puy prefers to be called) and Carlos just happened to find themselves in a room together: "I actually feel quite slighted by my rooming assignment. I wish I'd been put in Mass Hall because it predates the revolution" states Ricky. Surely, Ricky was guaranteed a spot in Mass Hall by putting a '2' for quietness. Yet, in another blunder in his housing assignment, Ricky was assigned to a roommate who had put a '3' for quietness, thus ruining his chances at sharing...

Author: By A. Cooley, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: When Victoria Was Queen | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

Cardinell said that the majority of professors do not respond to mass mailings sent out by Versity.com. But five to seven percent of professors express concern that their intellectual property will be jeopardized...

Author: By Keramet A. Reiter, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Yale Bars Versity.com | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

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