Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ONLY ONCE here--and this says a lot about how incredibly easy a life I've had--did I get wasted so hard that it hurt. It was spring of freshman year, when I was spending about 56 hours a week for eight weeks comping for The Crimson. I may have had some misgivings at first, but I have known since I was 14 that I want to be a newspaper reporter when I grow up, and by the end of those eight weeks I wanted to get elected to The Crimson more than I had wanted anything else...
This was the first time in my life I had been really rattled. When the managing editor told me I'd have to come back the next fall and do four more weeks, I came very close to slugging him. What hurt especially was that my then-very-serious-girlfriend was also comping news, and she got elected. All our friends had been telling us all spring how excited they were that we were going to become Crimeds...
...alcohol policy was really all things to all people. It gave the administration the ability to hide behind a shield of having a stated policy. It gave the students an opportunity to drink at college events. And it sure didn't hurt the poor guy in the Zone who sells fake IDs. 'Emergency identification cards' one of the signs reads. Sure is an emergency when you're stuck at a Leverett keg party and someone asks...
...industry has been hurt more by the outbreak of international terrorism than the airlines. Advance bookings on U.S. carriers flying to southern Europe have plummeted by about 50%, analysts say. Pan Am, the largest U.S. overseas carrier, is now fighting back with a security program called Alert to reassure passengers that the skies are safe. Pan Am has formed a security force, which will begin patrolling its international terminals on June 12 and whose services it will sell to other airlines. Pan Am says some of the squad's units will be armed, but it will not specify how heavily...
During his senior year in college, Cuomo shyly introduced himself to a popular, curly-haired girl named Matilda Raffa. She remembers him as serious and religious, the kind of boy, her mother told her, who would never hurt her. Andrew Cuomo recalls how when he first started dating, his father told him not to forget that the girl he was taking out that night was somebody's sister. When Cuomo proposed to Matilda, he was in his first year of law school; she remembers that he gave her a lecture on the Catholic Church's teaching about birth control...