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...roller coaster ride of wins and losses continued as the weekend progressed, with the Crimson dropping three of its final four contests, including a 13-7 loss to No. 9 Pepperdine in its final game on the west coast, leaving its record at 6-7 for the season...

Author: By Megha Parekh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Water Polo Drops Three of Five Out West | 10/12/2004 | See Source »

...Hall resembles a huge waterfall of dramatically arching and soaring stainless steel forms, each cascading over and into and through the others. I would be the first to admit that the building was both spectacular and titillating; walking around and through it felt like riding on the most beautiful roller coaster ever built. But as exhilarating as my immediate experience of the building may have been, it was also largely meaningless. The building didn’t stay with me. It didn’t leave me with any food for thought. And that?...

Author: By Julian M. Rose, THE ANGEL OF POST-MODERNISM | Title: Some Problems with Meaning and Criticism | 10/8/2004 | See Source »

...HALF AN HOUR AT ABOUT 2 P.M. LAST Friday, the main attraction at Six Flags New Jersey was not the Nitro, the "tallest and fastest roller coaster in the East," or the Superman Ultimate Flight ride. Within sight of the front gate, not far from the faux Revolutionary battlements of Fort Independence, a succession of blue tarps had been stretched. Prostrated on them, facing Mecca (and, unintentionally, the Cannonball Lemonade Stand) were hundreds of men, heads to the ground in sajda, Islamic prayer's gesture of submission to Allah. As hundreds more entered the park and took note, many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Six Flags over Islam | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

...eventually they did. Higher and higher their car climbed--230 ft. and then 85 m.p.h. free fall. Khan's hijab flapped but held. "It was good," she exclaimed at the ride's exit. "I'd never been on a roller coaster at night before. When you open your eyes, there was just, like ... nothing!" She smiled broadly. Then she made her way to the ladies' room, ritually washed her hands, face, arms and feet and found a small group of other women by the Ferris wheel. Turned into silhouettes by its dazzling illumination, they prayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Six Flags over Islam | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

When you're singing a ballad and the roller coaster goes by, you gotta be quick on your feet. So I think it's gonna help. Unfortunately, I was born too late for the Rat Pack. Born too late for the Rat Pack, and Paris Hilton calls me Mr. Danza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A Tony Danza | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

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