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...years ago, he often vexed referees, teammates and management while living the N.B.A. life to the fullest. But in 1992 he made his first hajj to Mecca, renewed his faith in Islam and added the H to his first name. Since then he has carried a prayer rug and a compass with him wherever he goes, and he has been at peace with the Rockets, opponents and, most important, himself. "You try your best to please Him," Olajuwon has said of his religion. "So you be the best personality you can. When you meet people, you're polite...
...eyed, I hefted my Sunday Times and Globe (promptly delivered by The Harvard Crimson to my door each and every morning for an unbelievably low price) and staggered into the common room, only to notice that something was amiss...a neat pile of Tommy's pizza boxes...an unvacuumed rug...a naked girl...our nice collection of textbooks still in their original cellophane wrappings. Wait a minute, what was that?!?! There, sleeping on the futon, was a girl wearing nothing but my plaid shirt. I crept around the futon, tilting my head to the side to recognize her as...someone...
...halogen floor-lamp blew up, setting a rug and several electrical wires on fire around 7:30 p.m. last night at Kirkland House...
...fire occurred near a computer, and wires leading from the machine were ignited by sparks from the exploding lamp. The wires then burned through the rug and to the floor...
ALMOST 90 YEARS AGO, AN ENGLISHWOMAN NAMED ELINOR Glyn wrote a racy best seller called Three Weeks that had it all: Venice! Illicit passion! Making out on a tiger-skin rug! Eventually, inevitably, she was invited to Hollywood to write screenplays and dine out. At some point in her stay the industry entered one of its periods of uncertainty-or perhaps one should say one of its periods of more-than-usual uncertainty-and someone asked Madame Glyn what she thought might happen next. "Whatever will make the most money," she sagaciously replied...