Word: leigh
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...addition, the publication received support from House Co-Masters Sandra A. Naddaff '75 and Leigh G. Hafrey '73. According to Villanueva Santo, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III also gave the group a personal donation when its request for an official grant from his office was denied...
...story has assumed mythic proportions, like the sinking of the Titanic or Robert Falcon Scott's doomed race to the South Pole. Shortly after noon on June 8, 1924, the 38-year-old English schoolmaster and Alpinist George Leigh Mallory, along with a young companion, an Oxford engineering student and oarsman named Andrew ("Sandy") Irvine, 22, vanished into the mists surrounding the summit of 29,028-ft. Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, never to be heard from again...
...this virtual-reality game, the game-pod looks like an animal kidney, and the plug (ugh) goes into a hole in your back. No big deal, says the game's creator (Jennifer Jason Leigh): "They do it in malls; it's like having your ears pierced." She might be a stand-in for the writer-director, who in Scanners, Videodrome, Crash and The Fly has dealt creepily and eloquently with the disintegration of mind and body. eXistenZ, where Leigh and Jude Law get into a virtual reality game and can't get out, is more modest than its current twin...
GENEALOGY ONLINE FOR DUMMIES by Matthew L. Helm and April Leigh Helm (IDG). With its catchy prose, the book is an easy-to-read but thorough introduction to computer genealogy and a valuable tool for techies. There's noncomputer advice...
...like the Paris metro," says MatherHouse Co-Master Leigh G. Hafrey '73. "The morecars you add, the more people ride," he quips...