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...four. As I came into the steep grade of the hill I stepped on my right foot and planted my right pole in the snow. Next I went to push with my right pole and step onto my left foot, thus moving myself forward. Instead of the expected motion forward, this reliable method of propelling myself on skis resulted in net zero progress. I've fallen down skiing countless times, I've stumbled, I've crumpled, I've flopped. I've jammed a pole into the snow between my skis and raked it up my crotch. I've explored just...
...scramble through my four options again, and reject them all. Now hopelessly dazed, I enter the thick fog of the lower cerebellum, mindlessly repeating the physical motion of skiing. In situations like this, the reptile part of our brain takes the last instruction from the conscious mind and just goes with it until the heart stops beating. The rhythm of my skis on the snow is mesmerizing. I let go of any strategy, or any planning, or any long-term thoughts of any kind. There is just me and the hill and the sound of my skis...
...Kerrey is whether there was incoming fire. Was there or not? That's a Rashomon story. The only mitigating factor is that all villagers were suspect in war zones. We were fighting an enemy army, but we were also fighting villagers. These things don't take place in slow motion. I know Kerrey, and I think he's an upstanding citizen. It would be hard for me to accept that he cold-bloodedly killed villagers. He was a lieutenant on one of his first combat missions. There could have been an element of panic. If it went as he says...
...took a final vote from Council President Paul A. Gusmorino `02 to create a 16-16 tie within the council-effectively defeating the motion to keep Harvard under the IC's auspices. The president's vote is only called for to create or break...
Sources within the union expect the motion to pass...