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...Box” is the segment that is both most affecting and hardest to describe. The story, in its bare outline, is that a novelist accidentally killed her twin sister in a horrific way when they were young circus performers. She is plagued by recurring dreams in which she is buried alive in the same small box in which her sister died. Elements of her dream spill over into her life, and her sister starts appearing to her—or is just a manifestation of a guilty conscience...
Moss was one of the losers. Now 60, she spent 35 years at Polaroid, beginning as a file clerk out of high school, then working her way through college at night and eventually rising to be senior regional operations manager in Atlanta. "It was the kind of place people dream of working at," she said. "I can honestly say I never dreaded going to work. It was just the sort of place where good things were always happening." One of those good things was supposed to be the ESOP, touted by the company as a plan that "forced employees...
...sounds like a far-off dream: The home that heats and cools itself for free and actually generates a bit more juice than it consumes, so that the power utility might even send you a check for supplying energy to the grid. But with commonsense design principles and a little help from technology, the house of the future can be yours...
...disagree with. She's against the repression of journalists in Russia and the stoning of women for adultery in Nigeria, and dammit, she doesn't care who she offends! "I'm the first to admit that in some ways, this is a fantasy President," says Davis. "We want and dream of a President who will make the right choices for the right reasons and not based on pleasing factions of their party...
...under cold and dreary drizzling rain, the Crimson lost a reasonable shot at the Ivy League championship. It was the loss that shouldn’t have happened—not based on precedent, not based on the way the home team played. It was surreal that the dreams of a league title would be squelched this way.Harvard doesn’t lose to Princeton. The Tigers hold the all-time lead, but hadn’t beaten the Crimson in the last nine consecutive games. And Harvard shouldn’t lose to Princeton when it plays like...