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...host families huddled in a group inside the station, each visibly eager to greet the American to whom they had voluntarily offered room and board (read: a cot and waffles) for the month, free of charge. Other than their height??one woman towered above me at a jaw-dropping 6’1”—what struck me about the families was what they represented, or failed to represent. Collectively, they showcased nearly every social variation possible, from age to sexual orientation. My own host family included a self-professed socialist lawyer and a pregnant...
...information officer. Once back on campus, she called the police. The victim was not physically hurt, and the offender never spoke during the incident, according to a community advisory from HUPD. The advisory described the offender as a white male in his fifties or sixties, around 6 feet in height??“with medium build and white bushy hair, clean shaven, and wearing a long black coat, dark colored shirt, and dark shoes.” There are currently no leads, and no arrest has been made, according to Pasquarello. Students said yesterday they did not feel...
...personal-best 11.85 meters. “This was a real breakthrough meet for me,” Stanton said. “This is the highest I’ve jumped this early in the season. I’ve jumped 3.70 before, but typically my highest height??s at the end of the season when we’re sort of peaking.” Four other women scored on the day in individual events, led by a pair of freshmen who picked up points in the mile. Jamie Olson finished in 5:01.15, earning third...
...felt almost anticlimactic.That swing came in the form of a missed backhand volley by No. 3 Junior Dan Nguyen with the score knotted at 10-10 in a third set tiebreaker. The volley did not stretch Nguyen much—four feet from the net, at a seemingly comfortable height??but Nguyen underestimated, punching the ball into the net and then hobbling away, with a cramped left quadriceps and a burning desire for a do-over.“If I could only have that shot back,” Nguyen said, shaking his head...
...from the physical and emotional trauma, even as the greater question loomed: “Why did this take place, and what is it all about?” Addressing this question is fundamental to understanding the emphasis on spectacle—extreme nostalgia, extreme lament, extreme rationalism, extreme height??seen so far in the proposals for rebuilding the World Trade Center site...