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When fighting erupts, Brother Bill has his routine down pat. From his Evanston home, it's a 35-min. drive to Cabrini. En route, he pulls on his robe and begins prayer. Upon arriving, he walks briskly to the scene, where the shooting has usually already begun. His pale blue robe aflutter, he stands in the center of gang gunfire. He says he can hear the crack of guns from snipers in the buildings as well as see shooters running on the ground or ducking in and out of entryways. But thoughts of his safety never cross his mind...
...time spring break rolled around, I was a sorry sight. All the hours I had spent indoors trying to churn out my thesis made me an even whiter shade of pale. My late night diet consisted of oreos that I washed down with Pepsi. Upon our final meeting, my adviser stopped in his tracks to ask me if I was all right. "You don't look so good," he told me. But all this did not matter when one thought came into my head--BAHAMAS...
...digital revolution that burns so brightly today is likely to pale in comparison to the revolution in biotechnology that is just beginning. Physicist Stephen Hawking, speaking at the White House last month on science in the next millennium, pointed out that for the past 10,000 years there has been no significant change in our human DNA. But over the next hundred years, we will be able and tempted to tinker. No doubt we'll make some improvements and some mistakes. We'll encode our dreams and vanities and hubris. We'll clone ourselves, we'll custom-design our kids...
...look at the amount of money we spent for these great, grand, beautiful buildings," the salaries for directors pale in comparison he said...
...bizarre events of Orton's true life and death, however, pale in comparison to the plot of this fantastical play, where the line between sanity and psychosis is blotted out past all recognition. It begins with Dr. Prentice (David Waller, '00), a country-sanitarium psychiatrist who attempts to seduce his naive secretary (Kate Taylor, '01) with such subtle lines as, "Take off your stockings; I wish to see what effect your stepmother's death has had on your legs." An unexpected entrance by his nymphomaniac wife (Stephanie Smith, '98) leaves the doctor flustered and the secretary undressed. It is soon...