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...morning and breathing-optional rides in the shuttle bus During the renovations, the house may be in various levels of disarray. However, the conditions in buildings like Eliot (euphemistically called a dorm with "character") make the mess worthwhile. Students also cited "Lake Barnard" during rainstorms, the inevitable "Quad Moat" after rainstorms, a current wide disparity of housing, shuttle bus speed bumps, and a less-than-stellar salad...
Nobody was hurt when half of the slab-fell into Blodgett Court, or The Moat, as it is more popularly known...
...miles away in Florida, in another Orange County courtroom, an equally sad story was unfolding. While Marietta and Harry Goode listened closely, Lawyer Philip Freidin recounted a tragic 1977 family outing to Disney World during which the couple's four-year-old son slipped away and drowned in the moat in front of Cinderella Castle. The amusement park, charged Freidin, had failed to guard the waterway properly...
Today, Disney says, fewer than 100 lawsuits are filed each year, and plaintiffs' attorneys concede that all are uphill battles. In the Higgins case, Disney contends the youth had been drinking and caused the roller-coaster accident himself. In Orlando, the company argues that the moat in which the boy drowned was safeguarded by at least two fences...
...play out the celebrity part. He will not sign autographs because, says his Westport buddy Writer A.E. Hotchner (Papa Hemingway), "the majesty of the act is offensive to him." Hotchner goes on to say, "He is the most private man I've ever known. He has a moat and a drawbridge which he lets down only occasionally." Over the years he has amused himself," and twitted solemn Hollywood establishmentarians who feel that superstars should have Rolls-Royces, by driving a series of VWs hopped up with racing engines. He and Joanne made a point 21 years ago of exiling...