Word: pains
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Dribbling through as many as three defenders, Housman displayed his ability to score at will. But when he ran out of gas in the second overtime, the team followed suit, losing for the seventh straight year in New Jersey. For Housman, the 33-point performance did not ease the pain of a loss. But there was a saving grace—he had arrived as one of the best point guards in the Ivy League...
...given us everything in the Delta: water, fish, oil. And yet we are suffering. That is our cross." mend recently issued a press release vowing a new campaign of "attacks against creek- and land-based installations around the Delta. Car bombs will be freely utilized. We will share our pain with all Nigerians." Since the election, mend has kidnapped a score of foreign oil workers and launched several bomb attacks. In an interview with Time, Yar'Adua acknowledged the seriousness of the Delta's security worries. "Yes, the situation in that region is very troubling," he says. "It is obviously...
...like and can't live with." When the ceos of General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler testified in March, Big John demanded yes or no answers to a series of questions that boiled down to just one: Are you working with us or against us? With varying degrees of pain on their faces, each one promised to cooperate...
...eyes, and directly in front of me was my ungloved right hand, which was clearly dead," he remembers. "It looked like a marble sculpture of a hand. I hit it on the ice and realized that so much of my tissue was dead, I wasn't feeling any pain. That had the marvelous effect of focusing my attention. I had an innate awareness that if the cavalry was going to come rescue me they would already have been there. If I didn't stand up, I realized, I was going to spend eternity on that spot...
...back into boxes and the monsters moved out of the closet. Losing this capacity to fantasize is conceptually heart-breaking to me, but it’s not a cause one can rally to. For one thing, how could adults face the dull stress of a work day, the pain of lost love, or the reality of warfare if our imaginations were still as free as children’s? And not even the impending summer is recess enough for the grown-up mind, because Harvard is not the problem, it’s just one step we?...