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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some point during the afternoon, one of my roommates came out of her room and told me, mostly as an interesting factoid, that she had just passed out. She had been trying to get something out from under the leg of the bed, and 20 minutes later, she woke up wondering what she was doing lying on the floor--the strain of lifting the bed had been too much for her back, which she had injured earlier while rowing crew. Strangely, I had been sitting in the common room and hadn't even noticed a thud. Neither had our other...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Where is Your Roommate? | 12/10/1996 | See Source »

...audience responded with laughter to his poem "Restless Leg Syndrome," in which a soldier's leg "for no apparent reason flies around the room kicking stuff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heaney Reads Poetry at Fundraiser | 12/3/1996 | See Source »

...thank Skelton's injury. For it and the run are one and the same, two events that are intertwined. Therefore, in a way, Skelton gave up a his leg so that his team would win. The team thanked him the night before as well, naming him the team MVP for the season...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Colby Skelton: An Injured Hero | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

...Game. The Game The Game The Game. And when your coaches are telling you in the pregame pep talk to give everything and hold nothing back because this is it, the entire season rolled into one, how can you not do everything in your power to win? A leg can heal. A memory never goes away...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Colby Skelton: An Injured Hero | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

...time, there was no way of knowing the significance of the final leg of the torch run at the opening ceremony for the Atlanta Olympics. It was simply nice that the leg began with Atlanta native and former Olympic boxer Evander Holyfield running in the tunnel beneath the stadium, with his own smile as a beacon, and ended with the lighting of the torch by Muhammad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BIBLE THUMPER | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

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