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...myself, was fairly lucky. I held my own in kickball, and I could throw a baseball with sufficiently masculine form. But, I was certainly no athletic superstar, and I endured my fair share of teasing. To this day, the sight of a gym rope makes me shudder...
...thwarted by the comatose crowd's lack of enthusiasm. Kelley and Danielle, our faithful karaoke fans, channeled their energy toward the skee-ball alleys. After what seemed like an hour and a year's tuition's worth of tokens, they returned, exhilarated and carrying their winnings: a fluorescent orange rope-bracelet and a holographic pencil. All in all, a successful night's work. I had to speculate what kind of freaks accrued enough skee-ball points to afford the 600-token South Park wind-up toys, much less the 400,000-token CD player...
...thwarted by the comatose crowd's lack of enthusiasm. Kelley and Danielle, our faithful karaoke fans, channeled their energy toward the skee-ball alleys. After what seemed like an hour and a year's tuition's worth of tokens, they returned, exhilarated and carrying their winnings: a fluorescent orange rope-bracelet and a holographic pencil. All in all, a successful night's work. I had to speculate what kind of freaks accrued enough skee-ball points to afford the 600-token South Park wind-up toys, much less the 400,000-token CD player...
Byrd's murder was a heinous crime against a man and his family, but it was also something larger. Lynching is the iconic Old South crime, used to punish slave insurrections. Lynch mobs traditionally hanged their victim from a rope tossed over a tree limb. But dragging deaths were not uncommon, first from horses, later from cars and trucks. Lynching was at once a brutal act of vigilante injustice and a larger statement--a warning to blacks to remain subservient...
Typically, Grover's sessions with Jordan began with a light warm-up--jumping rope, pedaling a stationary bike--to get blood flowing freely to muscles. Jordan then worked through a series of stretches that engaged each of the major muscle groups, from the feet to the neck and out to the fingers, in just 10 minutes. "He stretched before and after each workout, even when he did three workouts a day," Grover says. Jordan also stretched individual muscles between sets of weight-training exercises and, of course, as part of his warm-up routine before games...