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...went the letter that Sprint sent to its Biggest Pain in the Butt customers, thus eliminating 1,000 mobile users who take up so much time complaining that they're not worth keeping. The actual wording might have been more diplomatic, but you get the idea...
...What strikes you is the magnitude of the shock. It hit me every time. You don't know if you're going to live or die. You don't know what kind of pain you're going to face. You don't know if you're going to be able to make those theater tickets on Thursday. You don't know anything. Everything that was certain 10 minutes ago is not certain...
...largely unseen constant of elite sport is the pain of losing. The public sees the bowed heads and long faces of the vanquished, but not the deflation and self-doubt that can last for months. For sports people, the climb out of the pit happens faster when they can find some positives amid the gloom. In the case of the sailors of Team New Zealand, beaten by the Swiss Alinghi team last week in the America's Cup, that should be easy...
...other two. That is a better record than the country has in the next event to which it will turn its attention, September's Rugby World Cup in France. For many Kiwis, defeat on the water is one thing. Defeat on the rugby pitch... now, that's pain...
...joys can compare to sitting at my kitchen table over a slow breakfast with a tenderly folded (nay, lovingly tamed!) New York Times resting on the table beside my cereal. This joy only waxes when the cereal is replaced with pain au chocolat, the New York Times with Le Monde, and the table just happens to be in a petit café in France. From one of these joyful tables in Verdun, I send The Harvard Crimson this postcard...