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Sometime during the five hours he spent pinned in the wreckage of his car, grievously injured and delirious with pain, Robert Hughes was visited by Death. "He was sitting at a desk, like a banker. He made no gesture, but he opened his mouth and I looked right down his throat, which distended [an error occurred while processing this directive] to become a tunnel: the bocca d'inferno of old Christian art." So Hughes begins his new memoir, Things I Didn't Know, quite literally with a bang. The accident took place in 1999 on a deserted road in Western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critical Condition | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

...created.Recorded in Reykjavik, Iceland all the sounds, from the desperate bombast of “The Seedling” to the barely-whispered finger-picking of “Wai” have an icy purity befitting the Emily Dickinson poem—“After great pain a formal feeling comes”—from which the album gets its title (“First--Chill--then Stupor--then the letting go”).Indeed, the standout track, “Cursed Sleep,” might be the most musically complex piece to ever carry...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

...fellow teammates, even laughing and joking with reporters. Parcells said he was unsure whether Owens would return Sunday to play the Tennessee Titans; Owens is still listed as "questionable" on the team injury report. The Cowboys' in-house Web columnist Mickey Spagnola says that Owens suffered a reaction to pain medication prescribed Sept. 18 when he underwent surgery for a fracture of his fourth metacarpal. According to Spagnola, Parcells knew Owens was having troubles with the pills; the coach had sent Owens home from practice a few days after surgery because of what Parcells called a bad reaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Terrell Owens Attempt Suicide? | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

...dropped - although they may try to find the person who leaked a 911 report stating that a Dallas Fire and Rescue team had been called out at 7:51 p.m. Tuesday for an "attempted suicide" by a 32-year-old who had "ingested an unknown large quantity of Rx pain medication." Police arrived to find Owens, who was not named in the report, being put in an ambulance headed to nearby Baylor Medical Center. He was released Wednesday and the hospital refused to comment, citing privacy laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Terrell Owens Attempt Suicide? | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

...Etheredge - who told reporters she was there with Owens - provided the other details to officials, according to the leaked report obtained by WFAA-TV. Owens' rep told police that she noticed his pain medication bottle was empty while he was "putting 2 pills in his mouth" so she "attempted to put her fingers" in his mouth "to retrieve the pills." Owens had received the prescription - for 40 pills - after surgery on Sept. 18, but had taken only 5 to date, she told police. Owens, interviewed by police as he was in the ambulance, told them he had taken the remainder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Terrell Owens Attempt Suicide? | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

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