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Most Original Band: Clarkson. The Knight band comes with electric guitarist. How 'bout a little Hendrix to start the game...
Meanwhile the competition has been reaching dizzying new speeds. In Sunday's race, 27 skaters broke Heiden's old record. After Jansen, the best U.S. hope for a medal had been Sprinter Nick Thometz. But following months of battling a low blood-platelet count and a recent bout of the flu, he finished eighth in the 500 and 18th in the 1,000. That race went to the Soviet Union's Nikolai Guliaev in 1:13.03. The silver went to East Germany's Jens-Uwe Mey, already winner of the 500 with a 36.45 record. Finally on Saturday...
...years ago, Hawking's voice had deteriorated to a labored moan that only his family and a few associates could understand; one of them always stood close by to interpret his words. Then, in 1985, after Hawking nearly suffocated during a bout with pneumonia, he was given a tracheostomy that enabled him to breathe through an opening in his throat and a tube inserted into his trachea. The operation saved his life but silenced his voice. Now he "speaks" only by using the slight voluntary movement left in his hands and fingers to operate his wheelchair's built-in computer...
...when I climbed into a taxi one afternoon, we'd barely pulled away from the curb when the driver asked, "How 'bout them Vikes...
...time to turn over a new leaf. The deans conferred and debated, weighing the different strategies by which Harvard students could be reined in, while drinking strong martinis and getting stoned. "How 'bout mandatory breakfast? Yeah that's the ticket. How 'bout a dress code, tuxes for the guys, silk bikinis for the girls?" said one dean...