Word: actually
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...life. Said Surgeon Jeff Towles, who has had extensive experience with gunshot wounds: "There was an explosive effect like nothing I've ever seen before." He said that Jordan would have been killed if the angle of the first shot had been a centimeter different from its actual path. After surgery Jordan was listed in serious but stable condition in the hospital's intensive-care ward...
Born in 1935, Jordan was reared straitened middle-class circumstances. His father was a postal supervisor, his mother a caterer; her business is now operated by one of Jordan's two brothers. Though Jordan never lived in actual poverty, he once observed: "I rode in the back of the bus, I sat upstairs in the theater, I sat upstairs in the courtroom." After earning a bachelor's degree in political science at DePauw University ('57) and a law degree from Howard University ('60), Jordan set out to do his best to end those injustices...
Steiner points out that in the last six or seven years he has worked closely with Chafin on improving the level of security at Harvard in two ways--preventing the actual crime, and increasing the perception of security. To do this, he maintains that students must be aware of the crimes that do occur, adding that in "fairness to the University community" reports of the recent rapes at the B-School were made public after the initial reservations of the victims about publicizing the incident...
...motif with meaning, to the point where it could hold no more truth. This free passage from feeling into meaning was the ing into meaning was the essence of his genius. Even when he was painting below form, he could always find significance in commonplace sensations, however distorted the actual form: the death in a goat's skull or the spikiness of a sea urchin, the feather softness of a dove, the looming stupid menace of a bull, a toad's lumpish slither...
...actual advice, however, can be refreshingly blunt. Bill, 34, tells her that he has just quit a good job on impulse. Eager for disapproval, he asks Grant: "When will I grow up?" "Well," chuckles the psychologist, "that's a good question for all of us." She calls the hapless Bill immature and masochistic for quitting before lining up another job. "Never throw out the dirty water until you have clean water," she says. Grant is just as tough on Donna, 26, who complains that her husband goes to topless bars. Grant explains that men derive natural pleasure from visual...