Word: summering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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However, he said, they might be helpful as a preventive measure, especially during the summer when students may not have their own lamps...
...Europe in 1960. What was then a 20-page pamphlet is today a line of 30 travel guides and 18 map guides, available in bookstores nationwide. Published by St. Martin's Press, Let's Go: Europe has grown to a glossy 992-page behemoth. Hundreds of applications for summer jobs pour in each spring, as Harvard's would-be Tom Ripleys plan summers of bliss on the Continent. But casual dress and a torrent of daiquiris give way to grueling work, internal struggles, marijuana brownies, la cucuracha! and the Let's Go libido. So the staffers tell FM. Despite...
...Working as a Let's Go r-dub can be a dream come true, providing a free ticket to a far away land for a seven week trip with a daily stipend to boot. And a summer writing gig for Let's Go can be an attractive bullet on any Harvard resume. Let's Go requires its writers to front the money for their tickets, however, since r-dubs have been known to bail. "Every year there are people who don't follow through on their eight weeks of research," Stone says...
...Certainly, a Let's Go summer has its advantages over opening constituent mail, organizing dockets or filling in spreadsheets of corporate growth potentials. "You get to know a place in a way you never would otherwise," says Seid. "You get to see some pretty spectacular things. I saw a place that was announced as the birthplace of Homer, which it clearly wasn't. I got to see and cover the Acropolis." In Skagway, Alaska, another r-dub was shown an abandoned brothel. Under the floorboards she found an array of strange and terrible contraceptive devices of the Nineteenth Century...
...last year's violence in East Timor, doesn't appear to be going anywhere: He even attended a cabinet meeting Wednesday, in defiance of the President's orders. Although Wiranto had been removed from command of the armed forces and promoted to security minister following Wahid's election last summer, the general who orchestrated the former dictator Suharto's resignation two years ago remains a powerful figure - particularly among a military desperate to maintain its prestige and control over the increasingly fractious nation...