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Granted, there are non-athletes who squeeze past the admissions committee with talents as obscure and useless as flower arranging or bird watching, and those freaks can definitely drag down the mean (to the benefit of others). And I suppose there are those athletes who do possess a brain, maybe even of the Phi Beta Kappa caliber...
...junkie is tall and pale and goofy looking, in a T shirt and bike shorts, and Edward Conlon doesn't have a whole lot of obvious sympathy for him--he calls him Big Bird behind his back. Big Bird used to be an electrician till he realized his true calling, namely, shooting smack. A few days ago, one of Big Bird's fellow junkies conked him on the head with a chunk of concrete--the chunk is in Conlon's desk, in fact, with blood and hair still on it--and it's Conlon's job to find...
Today Conlon is cruising the neighborhood for the junkie who brained Big Bird, steering with one hand and juggling multicolored case files with the other, head swiveling constantly to scan the sidewalks. He drops by a project tower to do a "vertical patrol," which means taking the elevator to the roof and trotting down 16 condom-and-crack-vial-strewn flights to the ground. A crowd of teenagers loiters in front of the entrance. "Let's see how many of these guys break when they see us," Conlon says as he gets out of the car. None do, though...
...Conlon heads to a culinary establishment known as Jimmy's Diner. Big Bird has a phone number for his assailant, and Conlon has traced it to a fax machine there. The kindly woman behind the counter regrets to inform us that she doesn't recognize the phone number, and anyway Jimmy's doesn't have a fax machine, and are we sure we have the right Jimmy's? There's more than one, you know. Just like that the trail goes dead. "You try to get people involved in the story," Conlon says with a shrug, on his way back...
...play opens with a celebratory dinner for Marlene, who has just received a promotion over a man at her job with a career placement agency in London. Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella Bird (Adele Jerista), the world traveler, Lady Nijo (Scottie Thompson), a former courtesan in the Japanese court, Pope Joan (Emma Firestone ’05), the only woman to ever hold the papal office, Dull Gret (Emily J. Carmichael ’04), the subject of a Bruegel painting, and Patient Griselda (Sarah E. Curtis...