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...possible to retain this tradition by writing the autobiography of a life parked before a computer screen. But how much flavor would be missing without the scene of the hero walking across campus alone on a winter night, his head uncovered, his jacket collar drawn tight about his neck, alone, hearing a violin play You'll Never Walk Alone in a practice room somewhere, alone, in the snow that turns to rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goodbye, Columbus. Hello, Mr. Chips | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...morning. I had stayed awake the whole time he was sleeping. He started saying how he was so sorry and apologizing for his behavior. I thought he really meant it so I let down my guard again. That’s when he started everything up again, kissing my neck and trying to have sex with me, and the next thing I know is that he’s over by the door telling me thank you very much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: An Unsilenced Voice: Katie Koestner on Rape, Reaction and Change | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

...bites its parent's bill to stimulate her into regurgitating her payload. The adult hunches, retching, pumping out fish eggs and several squid. The chick swallows in seconds what its parent logged 4,000 miles (6,400 km) to get. The chick begs for more. The adult arches her neck and retches again. Nothing comes. We whisper, "What's wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cry Of The Ancient Mariner | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

Slowly comes the surreal sight of a green plastic toothbrush emerging from the bird's gullet. With her neck arched, the mother cannot fully pass the straight brush. She tries several times to disgorge it, but can't. Nancy and I can hardly bear this. The albatross reswallows and, with the brush stuck inside, wanders away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cry Of The Ancient Mariner | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

...told him in Greek that she loved him and wanted him to come home, and asked that he try to do what the therapist was asking of him - that this was the only way he would ever be well enough to come home. He responded by straightening out his neck and lifting his chin just enough for his lips to brush against hers. The therapy session continued...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Sealed with a Kiss | 4/20/2000 | See Source »

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