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...Leverett was invited to a meeting to vote on which picture to keep. Dowling might maintain that if you don't like the painting, blame the alumni. But house lore has it that the three paintings were strikingly similar. Judging by the winner, the selection must have been grim...
...squad also figures to be more than the Crimson can handle. The Terriers feature the number-one ranked wrestler in the nation at 158 pounds. While the outlook for today's meet is grim, the squad had taken considerable strides in establishing a strong nucleus of young wrestlers...
...punch line to so many O.J. jokes, the overly moussed aspiring actor was the most memorable witness during Simpson's hearings. A caretaker at the football star's L.A. estate, Kaelin unintentionally lightened the grim proceedings by testifying with a surfer's vapidity. Throughout, one imagined his agent thinking, "If there's a God, Baywatch will call...
...poets have idealized the canyons as a mist-shrouded wilderness. While that may have once been true, the region lost much of its majesty in modern times, as demolition teams blasted rocky obstructions from the river's course, and the bucolic villages on its banks gave way to grim new factory towns...
Rare and beautiful books have been destroyed; what's done is done. Why should we be grim? Let's look on the bright side. Slashing up rare books, a treasure trove of knowledge, is a grave crime. But it's not as bad as slashing up people...