Word: afternoon
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...might as well have tried to adjudicate a monsoon. That afternoon, Kathleen Treanor took the stand and told about kissing her four-year-old daughter Ashley goodbye and never seeing her alive again. After unspeakable days of waiting, Treanor recovered Ashley's body from the rubble, buried the little girl, and trudged on. Seven months later, someone called from the medical examiner's office. "He said, 'We have recovered a portion of Ashley's hand,'" Treanor testified in a trembling voice that rose as she fought to get through each sentence, "'and we wanted to know if you wanted that...
...service ends. The students mix with the others as the vast crowd flows out into the bright cool New York afternoon. It was not true that Jonathan had left them alone in the cold world. They had one another, and they had themselves. He had not taught them how to live (Who can do that?), but he had taught them to live. And this was the immutable gift of one who knew how to love and teach kids...
...Wednesday afternoon, and Matt Drudge is speed-dialing. in 30 minutes, he's made 20 phone calls trying to nail down the latest hot tip. A national newsweekly, he's been told, is doing a cover story on yet another major TV personality coming out of the closet. If Drudge could have found anything even resembling confirmation, he would have run with it. One press of a key and--bang!--the item would have been broadcast to the 60,000 Internet users who receive his breathless E-mail bulletins (and to tens of thousands more who visit his Website). There...
...morning of August 23, 1993, I was running around my house, putting the finishing touches on the suitcases I was packing for college. Jogging up the stairs, I lost my balance and came crashing down to the landing below. That afternoon, just a week before leaving for Cambridge for my first year, I found myself in the hospital having major surgery on my ankle...
...Harvard Corporation, the University's highest governing board, confirmed Rudenstine's appointment at its meeting yesterday. Taylor "got a great round of applause" when she was introduced at a joint meeting of the Corporation and Board of Overseers yesterday afternoon...