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Look at the Ravens' Ray Lewis. Just after Superbowl XXXIV, Lewis was charged in the stabbing deaths of two men after a brawl. He was mentioned in the same breath as former Carolina Panther Rae Carruth, who was involved in killing his pregnant girlfriend. Even after the legal matter was settled, things looked bleak...
...reading period draws to a close, the pressure begin to build in earnest. Slowly the cold but humid Harvard air becomes oppressive, thick and heavy. I become Ed Harris in The Abyss, breathing a slurry of oxygenated hydrocarbons. Each breath is positive work, my diaphragm labors draw the viscous fluid into my screaming lungs, then expels it out again through my narrow trachea. I am in a slow-motion free-fall through frigid, silent water, receding from the dim light of the sun as the deep rushes to swallow me. Every moment of descent adds thousands of pounds of water...
...dream of mountains. Mountain air is like none other, dry and thin, it crackles with energy. Like pure water, this cool air is hypotonic. With each breath, impurities and particulates, the shellac of concerns and obligations, leech out of my lungs and are expelled into the cool wind. I dream of freedom...
...until Monday. Then, having hit bottom, I will transform into a human bubble, light as air I will shoot up through the Harvard Trench of finals period, and undergo explosive decompression. I will float right to the top of the mythical mountain, and draw my first pure breath of freedom in more than a month. I can't wait...
...software called iDVD to help you design a semiprofessional-looking DVD menu. "Free" is a relative term, however, since you will have to pay $3,500 for the computer it comes in. Eventually, the SuperDrive is supposed to migrate to other Macs--but again, don't hold your breath...