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...also a city planner. "Modern town planning comes to birth with a new architecture," he wrote in a book titled simply Urbanisme. "By this immense step in evolution, so brutal and so overwhelming, we burn our bridges and break with the past." He meant it. There were to be no more congested streets and sidewalks, no more bustling public squares, no more untidy neighborhoods. People would live in hygienic, regimented high-rise towers, set far apart in a parklike landscape. This rational city would be separated into discrete zones for working, living and leisure. Above all, everything should be done...
Even more disturbing than the mental lapses, however, were the physical losses incurred from the tournament. Not only did captain-elect Adams receive a brutal hit resulting in a season-ending shoulder injury, but on the team's return home, Prestifilippo was diagnosed with mononucleosis. Freshman netminder Oliver Jonas was given the nod and forced to play 10 games in Prestifilippo's absence...
...stand at the doorstep of a new millennium," intones Senator J. Billington Bulworth. Sound a little like that Bridge to the 21st Century? Yes, but unlike President Clinton, Bulworth throws out this bromide in favor of brutal candor...
...weekend visits to my mother's hospital bed, we talked about classes, silly television shows, and, yes, even death. We both knew what the future would bring. At times, we were open and honest with each other about the brutal reality of our situation...
Within weeks of these musings, brutal reality set in. In August, Letourneau was taken into custody; in November, she was sentenced to seven years and five months in prison for having sex with Vili. And though Judge Linda Lau initially suspended the sentence, her leniency imposed an impossible condition: Letourneau must not have contact with Vili. In February, Lau learned that police had caught Mary and Vili together. Livid, she reimposed the sentence and sent Letourneau to prison...