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...mechanism to cope with the stress and exhaustion that accompany constant touring. “Instead of addressing that I needed a break, a rest to get my friggin’ head together, I just decided to drink and ignore it,” she says. Lord reached her nadir when she missed a tour date in Boise, Idaho, while she slept off a hangover in New York. The next day, her manager canceled the tour and Lord returned to Los Angeles to enter rehab...
...never more serious. But as I put the barrel in my mouth and it struck my teeth, I said, "Ow!" Then, of course, I started to laugh. The whole thing became ridiculous. What am I doing? But I think that's very common. That's the nadir, the lowest point...
...good news for Harvard is that last night’s game will probably be the nadir for free-throw shooting. By the time the Ivy season rolls around Sullivan will have made sure his charges can hit the all-important 15-footer...
...Things went wrong almost immediately. Once inside Qala-i-Jangi, the Taliban soldiers were asked to turn out their pockets. A prisoner, waiting until Alliance commander Nadir Ali was near, suddenly produced a grenade and pulled the pin, killing himself and the commander. In a similar attack the same night, another prisoner killed himself and senior Hazara commander Saeed Asad. The remaining men were led into underground cells to join scores of other captured Taliban fighters. Despite the grenade attacks, the Alliance guards were not reinforced...
...Things went wrong almost immediately. Once inside Qala-i-Jangi, the Taliban soldiers were asked to turn out their pockets. A prisoner, waiting until Alliance commander Nadir Ali was near, suddenly produced a grenade and pulled the pin, killing himself and the commander. In a similar attack the same night, another prisoner killed himself and senior Hazara commander Saeed Asad. The remaining men were led into underground cells to join scores of other captured Taliban fighters. Despite the grenade attacks, the Alliance guards were not reinforced...