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...done, eleven penalties were called at 3:01 of the third period: every skater on the ice for roughing in addition to Korbl’s initial infraction. The en masse penalty left the press box statisticians frantic and the Meehan sin bins looking like Green Line cars at rush hour...
This trend is disturbing. Sex for people our age should not be mandatory. Post-teen virgins should not be ostracized as some rare species. Yet popular culture tells us the opposite and encourages young adults, especially college students, to lose their virginity. Unfortunately, this rush is easily accommodated on college campuses, where newly found friends and neighbors—or random individuals at parties—become the sexual conquest...
...greeting cards: reams of flimsy leaflets that'll soon flutter over Afghanistan, wishing villagers below a happy end to Ramadan "from the people of America." Near the print plant, a giant satellite dish beams a radio program with anti-Taliban messages to an air base in Oman, where crewmen rush a compact disk of the program to Commando Solo, a converted Air Force EC-130 plane packed with broadcasting gear. Commando Solo flies over Afghanistan, blanketing the country with the radio show for ten hours...
...mission. His reasons are succinct, his delivery is deadpan and his air is undeniably macho. Pitt bursts the bubble when he asks, “You’ve been rehearsing that, haven’t you?” Clooney responds: “A little, did I rush? I felt like I rushed.” With any other director, the quip might have been left on the cutting room floor, but with its inclusion, Soderbergh breaks down cliche and gives himself licence to stretch the bounds of convention. Dusty avoids the Rat Pack’s liquid...
...though. I was in it for the words, I told myself; the rest of it was a mysterious process as close to chemistry and engineering as I was going to get at Harvard, and a good thing, too. But while I loved writing and working with writers, loved the rush of editing copy on deadline, loved thinking up mischievous headlines, and still have a file stuffed with every issue for which I wrote the least little thing, it’s not the words I remember most—it’s the mess. Editing copy on coarse yellow...