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Thinking that the UHS orthopedist would still have my X-rays, I rode the elevator up to the fifth floor. He didn't. The receptionist explained that I needed to go to the basement where X-rays are done. Normally, this would have been merely a minor annoyance, but boy, was I woozy. The UHS elevator does that...
...Katja Seizinger, returned to form by winning two golds in two days. Even little Denmark claimed its first Winter medal ever, in curling--quite a feat for a nation that doesn't have a functioning curling rink. For Japan, the Games were a happy windfall, as the host nation rode on the cheers of its faithful fans to win more golds in 16 days than it had won in 70 years of Winter Games. Ski jumper Kazuyoshi Funaki assured himself of heartthrob status by flying away with three medals; more movingly, Masahiko Harada, who had let glory slip away...
Saddam Hussein is simple. Villains are often simple. Alone in the desert, thumbing his nose at the world. Armed, dangerous, easy to hate. But so hard to catch. Why? In the westerns, the hero rode alone. The villains always had a gang. Think Gary Cooper. High Noon (1952). The hero always won. In international politics, though, that elegance disappears. Too many cooks? Try too many allies. The common enemy suddenly gets complicated. The Third Man (1949) knows this. A film noir with real profundity, the movie is home to one of moviedom's great villains: Harry Lime. Yet Orson Welles...
...While visiting the Olympic facilities here, despite evident anxiety on the part of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt rode the last mile of the Mount Van Hoevenberg Bob Run. Mrs. Roosevelt had ridden on the Mirror Lake Toboggan Slide several times previous to her experiment on the big run on a sled piloted by Henry Homburger [a Winter Games medalist] of the Saranac Lake Red Devils, but expressed a desire to ride on the track which had put so many contestants on the hospital lists...
...tune of the Harvard Band's rendition of "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard," Weaver rode down Mass. Ave., accompanied by assorted College dance and comedy groups, each striving to outdo each other in flamboyance...