Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WEDNESDAY 10:05 A.M. Tuttle is in the OR, assisting in the Jacks "living-related" transplant, when word comes that a liver has been located on the West Coast and can be in Durham by evening. It arrives in a large styrofoam box, bathed in preservative inside a plastic bag--surprisingly mundane packaging for a gift of life. It is after 11 p.m. when Tuttle removes Hunter's shriveled liver and begins the delicate work of suturing all the various vessels and ducts from the new liver into Hunter's system. At 12:30 in the morning, the moment...
...Mainz, Germany, resident reports that between 3 p.m., and 3:15 p.m., an unknown person removed her bag from beside her chair while she was at Au Bon Pain on 1350 Mass. Ave. The bag contained a wallet, $400 cash, a passport, a plane ticket to Germany, a 35 mm camera and a credit card...
...lunch program on its front page. Upper-class students, who no longer have to schlep back and forth to the river for their noontime nourishment, were exuberant. Perhaps caught up in this unbridled enthusiasm, The Crimson lost its wits, portraying the sole beneficiaries of the bag lunches to be "time-pressed undergraduates." Undoubtedly, frantic pre-meds with five minutes to spare between orgo and B.S. reap the benefits of the program...
Supposing the majority of bag lunch folk to be hyper pre-meds, Harvard Dining Services (HDS) has assiduously removed all traces of caffeine from the meal, offering only milk, water, and orange juice for beverages. But HDS and The Crimson err in assuming that only manic undergrads indulge in bag lunches. There is another breed of student queuing up at Loker: the sports...
...people collect photos of sports figures and movie stars. The walls of my cubicle are decorated with pictures of my hero: Mike sporting a Halloween tie; Mike tanned and well rested in Africa; Mike somber as he announced Ron Brown's death; Mike playing anonymous source with a paper bag over his head . Now he is leaving. As I try to envision life without my daily dose of Mike McCurry I feel an emptiness that -- with all due respect to Joe Lockhart's abilities -- won't soon be filled. When all is said and done, I'm a sucker...