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...most nights of the year, this stretch of country road is only a flat place in the dark. But for a few nights in late summer 2003, it blazed in neon, smelled like smoked sausage, spun sugar and blue-ribbon hogs and rang with screams of people who had bought a ticket to be scared. They rode the Tilt-A-Whirl, browsed tents of prizewinning fruit preserves and lined up for the cute-baby contest, and if there is such a thing as a time machine on earth, it must be powered by the Ferris wheel at the Wirt County...
...back in 1988,the same year I read Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, a truthful book about the hard social and political realities of New York. I read most of it "on site" in my call room at Harlem Hospital. One night, the phone in that room rang and I was told to come down to the Emergency Room fast. They had a 16-year-old boy there who was bleeding to death; his leg had been run over by a subway train. He was, the voice said before hanging up, a token sucker...
...knocked over but remained conscious. Yossi, a cousin living next door, raced over with his 5-year-old daughter. Pnina, a trained psychological counselor, was driving back from Tel Aviv, where she'd been lecturing Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops on handling the removal of the settlers. Her phone rang. A neighbor said something had happened. "I called my husband," she says. "And he shouts: 'Dana is dead! Dana is dead...
Molly C. Wilson ’06 was out when the red phone in her dorm room rang. “Is Molly there?” asked the caller, who spoke in a voice that is well-known around campus. When Wilson returned, her roommate told her, “Oh my God, Larry just called!” University President Lawrence H. Summers had phoned to say he thought “Shaniqua,” a flash animation created by Wilson, was funny. (Summers, through a spokesman, confirmed that he had called Wilson...
...final contest of the season, the Harvard softball team was shut out by Boston College on Friday. Despite the 6-0 score, Harvard refused to go out silently, as the humid air rang with an a capella rendition of “The Hey Song” that carried the team’s spirits, if not the offense. Originally scheduled as a Thursday afternoon doubleheader, the game was rescheduled due to inadequate field conditions. The contest was scoreless until the third inning, when the Eagles jumped on senior hurler Michele McAteer, compiling two runs on four hits before...