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...sophomore's room in Apley Court, the wood floor was covered with a layer of gray grime that would take hours worth of elbow grease to lift...
When the nurses range his arms, he can feel a light touch from the hand up to the elbow, "as if someone were to brush a hand along the area, a kind of caress. And I can feel something in my shoulder blades...
There are those who use raw elbow grease to be valedictorian, and there are those who use elbow grease plus lawyer's fees. At New York City's Bayside High School graduation last week, PAIGE GOODMAN (top) and LISA CAMILLERI were named co-valedictorians. But Goodman, whose GPA is 0.05 point higher, found this unacceptable. "I'm senior-class president," Goodman told the New York Times. "I feel like I've been slapped in the face after I've done so much for the school." When the Board of Education said the two should share the honor, Goodman sued...
...daunting problems getting space on the crowded cable dial. (NBC will put its new network, which debuts in July, on a channel it already owns, America's Talking; ABC hopes to package its service, promised for late this year, with its other cable networks, like ESPN.) To try to elbow his way onto cable systems, Murdoch is offering cable operators $10 per subscriber if they'll pick up his channel--a not unprecedented strategy for new cable channels but an extraordinarily high figure. The gambit could boost viewership, but will be expensive for a venture that already will cost...
After college, the group began to tour full time. The Southeast has a fertile music scene with plenty of places for young bands to find an audience, from the Georgia Theater in Athens to the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta to Rockafellas, the Elbow Room and Green Streets in Columbia (young bands on this circuit don't earn much; if you're in it for the money, move to Seattle). Hootie fitted right into the Southern pop-rock scene, playing clubs, bars, parties: any parties--birthday parties, frat parties, you name it. They would would sing REM and U2 covers...