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...first I blamed the nasty cold that I had caught earlier that week. I went to UHS the next day claiming a persistent hacking cough, mucus-filled throat and inability to mock others. They told me I was on my period (Haha! See? Now why can't I do that with I-bankers?). Later I realized the truth: I was afraid. I was afraid of the enraged horde of budding consultants that would inevitably knock down my door, shouting invectives and threatening to stab me with their PalmPilot Styluses. I was afraid that a mob of investment bankers would conspire...
...feeling of letdown everyone will experience starting Jan. 1, along with a pounding headache, nausea, sensitivity to any sound louder than a mouse cough and wishing that the world had in fact come to an end just after midnight...
...Katie Gates (6.2 ppg, 3.4 rpg), Lindsay Ryba (7.0 ppg, 3.1 rpg) and Sharon Nunamaker (2.2 ppg, 1.1 rpg), and guards Jen Monti (5.7 ppg, 2.8 rpg) and Laura Barnard (1.9 ppg, 1.1 rpg) were pressed into action last season when much of the team came down with whooping cough and other injuries. Delaney-Smith said they are no longer playing like freshman...
Last year was a down year for the Crimson. After four years with all-everything Feaster leading the way, the Crimson was reeling already. Add the loss of her supporting senior class, and the Crimson shouldn't have had a chance. But throw in whooping cough and a season-ending injury to Sturdy, the team's leading scorer at that time and the Crimson seemed lucky...
...when an irregular word is still fresh in the mind, it is fragile. If a child's memory cannot cough up held quickly enough, he or she adds -ed by default and says holded instead...