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...Undaunted, the first customer sauntered up to the counter and requested an Amstel Light. The youngster behind the cash register, after getting over the shock of the order, called for an over-18 employee from the back. Squeaking, "Sorry, I'm not allowed to ring it up," he deferred to his co-worker, of dubious age herself. Although his colleague accepted the Florida driver's license without question, the minor requested a second look. Glancing down, he announced, "It says she turns 21 on 2/3/99. She's not 21 yet!" After a gentle reminder of the recent millennium celebration...

Author: By A. A. Carrasquillo, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Bartending Bagels | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

...word yet on whether the mob plans any further expeditions in Harvard Yard. Maybe a prostitution ring run out of the Widener stacks...

Author: By G. M. Graff, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: In Vito Veritas: Mafiosi Come to Harvard Yard | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

...serving on a Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) committee that was unsuccessfully seeking qualified Cambridge School Committee candidates, and decided he might as well throw his hat into the ring...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Local Specialty | 1/26/2000 | See Source »

...come to this: you had a Baby Ruth for breakfast, you're operating on three hours' sleep, and you're sitting in a rented Hertz in the parking lot of a CVS drugstore waiting for your cell phone to ring. You're waiting for D'Angelo. You're not alone. Ever since the hip-hop/soul singer released his promising first album, Brown Sugar (1995), with its old-school crooning and new-school beats, fans, critics and impressed fellow musicians have been eagerly anticipating his follow-up. Even hip-hop folkie Beck--a guy who could give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: D'Angelo: Salvation Sex And Voodoo | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

Dooo-di-dooo-di-dooo! Your cell phone--which for some reason is programmed with the most ridiculous-sounding ring in all of telecommunications--goes off. It's D'Angelo's publicist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: D'Angelo: Salvation Sex And Voodoo | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

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