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...down, tore off the printout, held it lightly as a feather. I peeked. Eureka! There it was, the National Debt -- $1,823,105,258,488.19, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 1985, 11 a.m. When Marsha was born in 1956 the Debt had been only one-seventh as big. Did the burden crush her, I blurted? Not really, she said. She whisked it across the hall to be fed into more computers, which ultimately spewed it out to cringing auditors and suffocating finance ministers around the globe. Then what? Well, said Marsha, in a little while she would take...
...directed by Fred Schepisi, traces the degeneration of Susan Traherne (Streep) from her work with the French Resistance in 1943 to her desertion of her husband almost 20 years later. Susan--part Joan of Archetype, part loony from Loonyville--is a bitter romantic who never got over her teenage crush on reckless idealism. During the war there was excitement to spare in her view of the British as parachuting | angels of mercy. Her one great moment of idealistic passion--in a tatty French hotel room with an exhausted soldier-hero--is the memory that sustains and destroys her life. Progressive...
...labor was slow, dangerous and occasionally stomach turning. At times the rescuers had to cut through human corpses to reach the living. Doctors worked for hours in narrow tunnels to amputate limbs before victims could be lifted to safety. The physicians had to operate carefully to avoid so-called crush syndrome, the slow buildup of toxins in the damaged limbs of trapped victims. Without proper treatment, like the intravenous infusion of liquids even before people were freed from the rubble, the condition could result in the death of survivors through kidney failure...
...counted as injured, officials feared that 1,500 remained trapped, alive or dead, in the ruins. Volunteers formed lines to pass chunks of concrete, hand to hand, down from the mountain of rubble in the effort to find survivors. When a young boy was pulled out of the crush of concrete --bloody and bruised, but not seriously hurt--rescuers and bystanders broke into cheers...
Every fall at Harvard there are certain things you come to expect. Freshmen will flock to the Hong Kong and act like freshmen. Your ID picture will make you look like Marty Feldman. And the Harvard football team will crush the pathetic pussycats known as the Columbia Lions...