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Coleman, while attempting to replace an outdoor light bulb on her back porch, had slipped and fallen head-first into the snow drift, where she remained for several hours before losing consciousness, according to Foley...
...policy simply isn't fair. While Harvard places interhouse restrictions on a number of other dining halls, they apply to all non-residents of the house in question, not just those who got thrown head-first into the shallow end of the freshman housing pool. Consider the fact that a first-year from Weld could eat at all of the three Quad houses with all of her friends, while a 29G resident has to eat at a randomly assigned house with randomly assigned people. And they say lightning never strikes twice...
...deftly dodged her murderous lunge, she plunged head-first hundreds of feet down into the cavernous pit that residents once knew as the Quad Courtyard. And as she fell, arms flailing madly by her sides, I couldn't help but feel a pang of sorrow--after all, it would be many weeks before the construction men would return from their coffee break and find...
...wall but always catching them at the last; and poor Buckner teetering everywhere. "When you got two feet killing you," said Buckner, bracing his wobbly ankles in high black boots, "you don't know which way to limp." In the exquisite moment of game five, Buckner mounted just enough head-first slide to beach himself on home plate. It was hard to call that run unearned, but Mets errors had started again. Even though Red Sox Lefthander Bruce Hurst won his second sterling game, the first home crowd with anything to shout about gave its fullest voice to ridicul...
...With a wild eye and a remarkable range of voices, Mann holds the audience's attention and summons into the theater the images in Stoppard's oration. The transition from Bernard's somnolent maunderings to Arthur's vigorous gesticulating ought to develop more gradually, however; by jumping head-first into his monologue, Mann loses an opportunity to scale the intensity of his speech in an upward arc, making this vastness of exposition more listenable...