Word: comas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been almost six months since an MIT first-year died after entering a coma with a blood alcohol level of .41. In the weeks after the tragedy, college, police and government officials seemed to be tripping over each other in their rush to denounce the use and abuse of alcohol. The UMass schools moved to ban it. Deans Archie C. Epps III and Harry R. Lewis '68 released a statement about it. And two poor Harvard first-years were arrested for buying it. But sources of power and authority in the lives of Harvard students have, thankfully, been relatively quiet...
...France, near Dijon, a railroad accident kept her waiting for hours in an unheated train. She caught cold and by the time she reached The Hague, planning to dance there, influenza had developed, also pleurisy. Death came swiftly, in three days. On the third day she roused from a coma and spoke to Victor Dandre, her husband and accompanist. She thought she was herself again, high on her toes, poised for dancing. "Play that last measure softly," she said...
...AIDS sticker when he dropped to 140 lbs. after breaking his jaw making City Heat. He became addicted to painkillers, went off them cold turkey--and fell into a coma. The medics thought he was dying. "I saw that famous light. And you know, I didn't want to come back. Then someone said, 'If you die, they'll say you died of AIDS.' And I came back...
...genu-wine, Holy Ghost, Jesus-filled preachin' machine this mornin'!" He can woo a dying man to the Lord, but he can't heed his own gospel. He menaces his frazzled wife (Farrah Fawcett) and clubs a rival with a baseball bat; when the man falls into a coma, E.F. shows no regret or remorse. He flies away, landing in Louisiana and hoping to build another church. Jesus' retailer needs a new store...
...most recent allegation of underage drinking at MIT comes less than a week after the Boston Licensing Board voted to temporarily close another fraternity's house because of the drinking-related death of first-year Scott Krueger, who in September fell into a coma after a party at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Krueger later died at Beth Israel...