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Merriman's thesis titled "Burial" consists of a display of prosthetic limbs being lowered into the ground as part of a simulated burial. This project is a controversial and unique presentation of death. Several masters of the Quad Houses objected to allowing Merriman to perform the project at the Quad, given the recent suicide of a Quad resident...
Jerry: If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow--but soon, and for the rest of your life...
...large red mark on her stomach. Steve was gone, and Mary didn't want to press charges, so the cops left. But Mary told police that Steve returned that night drunk. As they were talking, he pulled away in the car quickly, allegedly knocking her hard to the ground. She was eight months pregnant with Audrey. A neighbor took her to the hospital...
What we have here is Krav Maga (pronounced krahv ma-gah), the brutally efficient self-defense system created by the Israeli Defense Forces and currently infiltrating America's fitness industry. Even as crime drops in most big cities, Krav Maga (Hebrew for "contact combat") is quickly gaining ground in urban gyms...
Students learn how to channel natural "fight or flight" reactions into swift defensive tactics meant to subdue the bad guy, summoning in a heartbeat what Levine calls a winning warrior spirit. They escape from choke holds and bear hugs, wrestle away weapons, fight on the ground and fend off multiple attackers. Anything goes, including groin kicks, elbow jabs, head butts, hair pulling, biting and eye gouging. "There are no rules," explains Levine, an L.A. County prosecutor and the highest-ranking American instructor in Krav Maga. "If it's illegal in boxing, we're doing...