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...fact, the pop-Eleches were just two of several members of the Harvard community to brave Newton, the streets of Boston and even the legendary Heartbreak Hill in completing the Boston Marathon yesterday...
Roberta Simon was eight years old when poliomyelitis paralyzed her from the neck down. She spent three months on her back in a Washington hospital and then began a long series of treatments and exercises that slowly, painfully restored full mobility to her limbs. Like many brave polio victims, she pushed herself hard. She was a majorette in junior high school, went to college and eventually became a surgical nurse in a Chicago-area hospital, working long hours on her feet in the operating room. "I was out there doing my thing," she says. "I thought I was over polio...
...beginning, we were all members of hunter-gatherer tribes. The desire to brave the competition in a quest to attain a desired object of prey is as old as humankind itself. But Primitive People had it easier. As civilization dawned there were no papers to write, no problem sets to do, tasks that make it difficult to set aside time to flex those ancient hunter-gatherer muscles...
...dynamic established in this way, between questions of literary style and questions relating to the wider political culture, makes Harper's both a brave and a very relevant work. He himself insists that, far from being a futile exercise, postmodern theory still has useful work to do: "Despite what we can discern in a lot of postmodern theory as the assertion of a lack of grounding... it seems to me that we willy-nilly constitute such authorities and authenticities every day-necessary." But although theory can alert us to "the constituted and contingent nature of those touchstones...it is less...
...guard remains astutely silent, Johnny continues until the man closes the door and returns to his desk. In a few moments the guard opens the door, looks up and down the street and leads Johnny in. What emerges from this random meeting is one of the most informative, brave and confrontational conversations ever seen on film. The security guard spends all his time reading and is the first and only character who understands Johnny's innuendoes and leaps of logic. Johnny eventually leaves to lure the Woman in the Window who the guard watches dancing in her apartment window every...