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There are some things that happen only in movies. That's what I always thought about having an umbrella blown inside out by a gust of wind or getting gutter-splashed by a car. Coming from Los Angeles, where roads are wide and the rain always vertical, I thought those things were some wide-eyed screenwriter's fancy...
...people have been putting up songs on the Internet claiming to be tracks from advance copies of upcoming albums. On Napster now, you can find songs claiming to be from the upcoming U2 album All That You Can't Leave Behind or from Fatboy Slim's Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars, but a quick listen shows them to be nothing but songs by random groups trying to get more people to listen to their own work. Which only goes to show, you really should buy the albums...
...know from Professor Tatar's lectures, every heroine has to be in the dumps before she can triumph victorious. Well, let me tell you, I've been in the gutter ever since my ill-fated article went to print. After that fateful day, my blocking group shunned me away into nowheredom, boys stopped dating me, people whispered behind me in the dining hall, and I was forced to face the constant taunting of my prefectees, who officially dubbed me the "loser prefect." Yes, I used to be cool, I used to be composed. But after I professed my (perfectly legitimate...
...sporting good store had no hockey equipment, save little plastic hockey sticks marketed at the pre-school crowd. And so, during the summers and warm winters, we settled for roller hockey—a slow, clunky substitute that always ended prematurely after our only ball fell into the rain gutter. To the neighborhood kids, we were heroes; to everyone else on the block, we were a nuisance, on par with skateboarders and punk rockers. We were chased out of the town’s parking lots and tennis courts, cursed by police officers and elderly women. Dark times, indeed...
...afternoon. But as the market rebounded in the second half of trading Tuesday, it became more and more clear that the long-inflated NASDAQ may simply be approaching normalcy, with profitable firms such as Cisco and Intel bouncing back to respectable numbers while overinflated "dot-coms" stayed in the gutter...