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...Leverett path, part of the University's "safe path" system, is well-lit during the night and contains several blue light emergency phones...
...Just as unforgettable was the grin that later lit up the face of Cathy Freeman as she became the last Olympian to be handed the torch after a tantalizing relay around the stadium, from Raelene Boyle and Betty Cuthbert, to Dawn Fraser, Shirley Strickland, Shane Gould and Debbie Flintoff-King. And then an eternity it really seemed, as the flaming cauldron wobbled above Freeman's head, stopped, then began its agonizingly slow crawl up the 70-meter waterfall. A small engineering problem had caused "some extraordinary adrenaline rushes" among the organizers, said master of ceremonies Ric Birch. But by evening...
...office once which shocked me a bit. He was looking over a set of accounts. He had a question or something, so he called one of the junior managers, and of course the fellow came rushing right in. But the fellow was smoking. And he put the cigarette--still lit--into his pants pocket because my father didn't smoke and didn't approve of people who did. And he stood there as he talked to my father, with his pocket burning, obviously in some distress. And finally he finished the business and walked out. And I was really shocked...
This sort of thing has obviously worked wonders for Stine in the past. Will the Nightmare series propel him back to his former sway over kiddie lit? Valerie Lewis, co-owner of Hicklebee's Children's Books in San Jose, Calif., thinks not. "His popularity peaked at Goosebumps," she says. Of the new books, she adds, "We'll have them in the store. But we probably won't be having big displays of them." Yet Camilla Corcoran, a children's books buyer for Barnes & Noble, is bullish on a Stine revival with Nightmare: "We are definitely expecting...
...resident of Bristol Street reported to CPD that while walking on Hampshire Street, he was almost hit by two Hispanic males riding bikes. The man asked the suspects if they were blind, prompting one suspect to begin swearing and taunting him. One of the suspects flicked a lit cigarette at the man, hitting him above his eye and causing a slight burn. The victim could identify the suspects...