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...about a month earlier he was standing in his office, having just come up a flight of stairs, when he felt a sudden pain and a bit of a pop in his right calf. The calf was sore and it made him limp so he went to a commercial chain's urgent care center nearby (a "doc-in-the-box" in hospitalese) and thus began his saga. The story made me groan...
...back pain. Patients sometimes just cannot believe there is nothing wrong in their leg. Tim could have been vague about his story, or he might have been so wound up that the pain seemed to involve the whole leg, not just the one spot. In any case, the chain that owned the doc-in-the-box also owned a diagnostic center. So the MRI was done pronto...
...first in line to house the award. The theft incited a siege of e-mails, rife with accusations and calls for retaliation, over the Cabot House open list. Mather House, last year’s Green Cup winner, was the primary suspect identified in the e-mail chain. “Someone saw the Green Cup being carried past Dunster to Mather,” said Thomas R. Benson ’09, the Outreach Chair of the Environmental Action Committee and a Cabot House resident. “If Mather doesn’t give the cup back, they...
What Harvard Would Probs Do: Lame Idea #1: Let yet another not 24-hour fast-food chain buy up the space; (everyone loves McDonalds)! Lame Idea #2: Put a few beds in it and call it overflow housing for upperclassmen. Lame Idea #3: Store books there to make up for the lack of libraries on campus. Lame Idea #4: Make more “freshmen-friendly” spaces so freshmen will have more friends. Lame Idea #5: Use extra endowment money to build nuclear bombs for fun there, rather than dealing with trivial matters like financial aid. What Harvard...
...April 1983 an Iranian surrogate group blew up the American embassy in Beirut. Forensic investigators sifting through the rubble determined with a fair amount of certainty that the bomb maker had inserted explosives inside the firing chain, ensuring a "signature" was not left to tie the attack to Iran. Iran never claimed the attack, the suicide bomber was never named, and if it weren't for a still classified lucky break, we would have had no evidence the Iranians were behind it. It is unlikely in the intervening years Iran lost its touch. It certainly isn't clumsy enough...