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More important, though, Nesson also believes that "there comes a time when a person can cease to be a full functioning member of an institution." At that point he adds. "You have to decide if you want your institution to be a base from which to catapult yourself. That can have a dehabilitating effect on students and other professors, who might think. 'Why am I killing myself when Jones is making megabucks...
Billy Olson used to dream of flying, not over crossbars, over rooftops. "I imagined myself jumping off fences and just flying," he says, "running down the street, flapping my arms and . . . taking off." For those who have never traveled by catapult, this is the sensation of pole vaulting...
Annnh! Annnh! Annnh! The repeating pierce of shrill fire alarms has become a staple for Lowellians at all hours. In the wee hours of the morning they catapult you from bed, ending sweet dreams with an abruptness Freud never could have explained. At breakfast they jar your attention from your Raisin-Bran, startling you into sudden alertness more effectively than the strongest black coffee. These aren't the lyric chimes of the famed House bells. They are Harvard's reminder to Lowellians that, mid way through October, construction still continues on the half century old structure. And they...
...government without the F.D.P. He also has his eye on the posts of Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister, which would be offered to Genscher as leader of the coalition's second partner. "Strauss is not going to sabotage Kohl's election, because he knows that this would catapult him out of office," says a fellow Christian Democrat. "But he is going to make as much trouble as possible in order to undermine the Free Democrats as a long-term political partner." For this reason, nothing would please Strauss more than to see the F.D.P. falter in the Hesse...
Pole vaulters, catapult the human body through the air, often achieving altitudes that are three times their own height...