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Having recovered from a season-ending injury in 2003—when he broke both his right tibia and fibula against Northeastern—Frey was finally healthy and fired up for his senior season with the Harvard football team...
...experienced players played shoulder to shoulder with uncoordinated rookies who made catching a slant look like rocket science. I took the field with middle-aged men who had children and regular jobs, a crazy eighteen-year-old linebacker who’d already suffered six concussions (apparently he once broke his helmet, got knocked out, was carted off the field in a stretcher, and then ran back on the field, strapped on his badly broken helmet, and kept playing, again suffering another concussion and losing the ability to walk for six months...
...been wobbly on the war. He voted to give the President authorization to go to Iraq because Bush promised to let the inspectors do their job, form a real coalition (right now America is bearing 90% of the costs and casualties), and plan for the aftermath. President Bush broke all of these promises to John Kerry and to the American people. A Kerry administration would never be so rash and misleading...
...interest, of executives paid to head both the hospital and for-profit subsidiaries, and plenty of stories of aggrieved patients. By June, the suits were flying. "These hospitals claim they're charities but operate like for-profit businesses," says Scruggs. "We aren't challenging hospitals that are going broke...
...might expect from an advocate of licentious utopianism, Nelly is the world's least conflicted famous person. "What's wrong with being rich and famous?" he asks. "It's better than being broke and not known!" This he knows from experience. In his poor-and-anonymous days, Nelly, 29, supported himself with jobs that ranged from sorting packages on the graveyard shift at UPS to dressing buns at McDonald's. "It's not all smiles like you see on TV," he says. "The McDonald's I worked at used to have a heavy-ass lunch rush--a week's work...