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...were really asleep for the first eight minutes and gave up two goals that we shouldn't have given up," Harvard coach Tim Wheaton said...
...captures the essence of the self-absorbed groping college life in key passages such as: "The apartment that we called 'home' was a place to store books and papers, share an occasional meal, play chess, scan the newspapers, watch television, make love in haste and detachment, then fitfully fall asleep." This idea of college as a place to rest while stuck in transit between childhood and adulthood certainly strikes a strong cord among students...
...years ago, during a family vacation, Nicholas Green, asleep in the back seat of a car with his four-year-old sister, Eleanor, was shot by bandits on a highway in Italy. He died two days later, on Oct. 1, three weeks after his seventh birthday. His parents donated his organs, an act that saved seven lives and was met with a huge outpouring of affection in Italy. Today Maggie, 35, and Reg, 67, who publishes a mutual-fund newsletter, travel the country on behalf of donor awareness. Two men are on trial for Nicholas' murder, but the family...
Then, about midmorning, I started having some doubts. Maybe that wasn't Elizabeth Dole. Maybe I'd fallen asleep while watching the Tonight Show and dreamed that Elizabeth Dole, snapping under the strain of having remained that focused for that long, had donated 38 ladylike suits to Goodwill Industries and become an outlaw biker. Maybe I was suffering from what my mother used to call an overactive imagination...
...morning last week I woke up absolutely certain that, just before falling asleep, I'd seen Elizabeth Dole being interviewed by Jay Leno on the Tonight Show, and she was wearing blue jeans, motorcycle boots and a black leather jacket with chains hanging...