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Each team sported climbing harnesses tied to home-made sleds, each of which was mounted by one anxious-looking comrade. Judith Palfrey, co-master of Adams House, counted down to “Alaska one” and sounded the horn. The contenders raced off, dragging their sleds and riders along the pavement. As soon as they rounded the first bend of the loop, it became apparent that five sleds would not fit on one track. From the melee of string, wood, and limbs the Men’s Rugby team—self-titled The Scrum Machine?...
...pick-up truck follow Walter Smith (Kevin Pollak) and his family home, eyeing the family’s shining Escalade. Their attempt to steal the car from the Smiths’ remote mansion is complicated by the involvement of the two Smith children, Tommy (Jimmy Bennet) and Jennifer (Michelle Horn), as well as their father (Pollak). The delinquent teens ineptly spiral the event into a full-blown hostage situation...
...Francisco's Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (WELL) is perhaps the most famous of these new virtual communities. It is connected to the Net but protected by a "gate" that won't open without a password or a credit card. Stacy Horn, a former WELL user, built a similar system on the East Coast with this twist: she offered free accounts to women, hoping they would provide a "civilizing force" to counterbalance the Internet's testosterone-heavy demographics. It turned out to be a successful formula, and Horn has plans to build similar services in six U.S. cities, including Boston, Minneapolis...
...sidebar), Miller’s first reaction upon viewing The Birth of a Nation was surprising. At the time, he was a philosophy/French literature major studying at Bowdoin College, a D.C. expat fed on hardcore punk groups like Bad Brains and a style of ’70s horn-funk called...
According to Rivera, the engineer of the commuter rail that struck the students told T police that he saw the students when they were only 50 feet in front of him and was not able to honk the horn or hit the brakes in time—the train would have required approximately a half a mile to be able to stop...