The capper: I don't watch commercials--except for that Gap ad with the Earth, Wind and Fire song "September" in it.

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Mr. Capper, now 57 and the chief executive of a San Francisco financial-services company, says that the Waldos were hardly slackers.

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Sgt Capper is hoping people will actually heed this hard-hitting Christmas message.

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Mr. Capper says some of the Waldos' families knew members of the Grateful Dead, and the 420 term took hold among the band's numerous followers.

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The Red Bulls coughed up a 3-1 halftime lead in Portland last weekend, with an own goal being the capper in an eventual 3-3 tie.

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She puts a capper on an illustrious career at Google.

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The capper: At my going-away party, one tool-room engineer--a guy who had hazed me hard in the beginning--asked if I wouldn't mind talking to his son about going to college.

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