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Several weeks ago, in the throes of New York apartment hunting, I called a man who had advertised a reasonably priced loft on Craigslist. He was very friendly and wished to talk about everything but the apartment itself.“What is area code 202?” he asked me, his accent thick and untraceable. “From what city are you?”“Oh, 202 is Washington, D.C.,” I told him.“Ohhhh,” he replied, stretching the word to four distinct syllables...
...Donohue's mind fumbled for explanations. Someone fell from the double-level loft bed, she told herself. The thuds were bed boards collapsing. She stepped into the hallway in West Ambler Johnson dormitory to see if she could help...
...finalists—senior co-captain and sophomore Sarah Vaillancourt for the Crimson, 2006 winner Sara Bauer and Meaghan Mikkelson for Wisconsin. The Badgers are directed by Mark Johnson, who moonlights as the coach of Chu and fellow Olympian Caitlin Cahow on the U.S. National Team. Wisconsin, despite its loft ranking, is largely untested outside of its native WCHA, with only six non-conference games on its record...
...golfers are met at the nearby Aviara golf course with a monogrammed bag and their new set of custom-fit clubs, all ready for 18 holes of green-grass testing under the watchful eye of Peterson. After lunch, the club technicians get back to work, tackling any lie, loft or shaft adjustments that the round reveals...
...Great Austin Grackle Kill of '07 had all sides engaged. Had the birds, which number in the thousands in downtown Austin, been poisoned by some angry loft developer? Or had they died from a bout of overindulgence of mistletoe during the holidays? The answer to both is no, according to experts at Texas A&M University. They say the grackles fell prey to parasites and a sudden dip in temperatures, struck down by a double whammy of bad luck in the bird world...