Word: deadly
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...this season was his gutsy attitude towards running. He showed no hesitation in testing his pain threshold in the pursuit of victory. At the outdoor Heptagonals at Yale, Chenoweth fell at around the 2000-meter mark in the 5000-meter run. Instinctively, the freshman picked himself up and, sitting dead last, made his way through the pack. At one point Chenoweth took the outright lead before finishing second in the home stretch to Princeton’s senior Dave Nightingale by only .03 of a second. “That race was really a great illustration...
...just bruised. It’s one thing to subject us to history and flood the streets with revelers, or have themed dinners on opening day at Fenway, or even blow a good amount of our House social budget on an event I wouldn’t be caught dead at. But the line needs be drawn somewhere: senior spring, a time to spend time with your friends and cherish your last moments at Harvard. In keeping with that theme, a group of friends decided that a trip to see the Red Sox and Royals was in order last month...
...when these strange men in dungarees read poetry to unmuted jazz, or steal cars and drive to Denver, or just “burn, burn, burn, like a fabulous yellow roman candle” it is with a vigor which marks the rest of us as dead, a bad penny vitality and a grubby crucifixion which make lectures and Haze-Bick existentialism seem extremely square...
...allow politically sensitive cases to get anywhere," Richardson says. "I'd be very surprised if this turns out to be different." Liu Li says she just wants to know why her daughter's school turned into a death trap. She, like the other parents holding photos of their dead children on Children's Day in Dujiangyan, await an answer. It probably won't come from a lawsuit...
...quake. For more than an hour, as tears streamed down her face, Liu, 40, displayed a large photograph of Hui Shan, her daughter. It was a mock magazine cover, done up by the grieving mother and some of her friends in an art class. The photo showed the dead girl wearing stylish black glasses and an impish smile. "Sophisticated," the magazine's title read, just above the photo. Liu's vigil, and those of the other parents present, turned what is supposed to be a national holiday of celebration and games for kids into one of mournful - and pointed - remembrance...