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Combat survivors speak of the terror and the excitement of playing in a death match. Are we somehow incomplete as people if we do not taste that terror and excitement on the brink? "People are [taking risks] because everyday risk is minimized and people want to be challenged," says Joy Marr, 43, an adventure racer who was the only woman member of a five-person team that finished the 1998 Raid Gauloises, the granddaddy of all adventure races. This is a sport that requires several days of nonstop slogging, climbing, rappelling, rafting and surviving through some of the roughest terrain...
...interests cannot be adequately served by existing campus groups such as the PBH Animal Welfare Committee. We are Students at Harvard Erotically Engaged With Pets, or S.H.E.E.P. We reject the use of clinical terms such as "zoophilia" and describe ourselves as "theriosexual," a word which better describes the wild joy of our way of life...
...eulogy that celebrated the closeness between her and John, the brother who, even as a grownup, would reach out naturally to grab his sister's hand. "He especially cherished his sister Caroline," Ted said in his eulogy, his voice trembling, "celebrated her brilliance and took strength and joy from their lifelong mutual-admiration society." Caroline stood up to hug her uncle as he descended from the pulpit...
Whether we're aware of it or not, this estrangement creates a void. "People have an inherent need to feel connected," says Joy Browne, a clinical psychologist and nationally syndicated talk-show host. "And they'll do it in whatever ways are easiest for them." When family members are distant, what could be easier than forming a connection to celebrities--especially glamorous, public-spirited ones like the Kennedys...
...that getting folks inspired about politics was a daunting task. He leaned forward and placed both hands out on the table. "No, no, no," he said, his eyes wide. "People are less jaded than you think." He told me, with great passion, how much his father had relished the joy and nobility of politics and how he knew in his heart that people were ready to recapture that spirit...