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...started to think of death as a shadow in the corner, waiting patiently for its time to move forward. The first time I thought of it like that was almost exactly a year ago, when my father fell and broke his hip. The general expectation among doctors is that an elderly person, particularly one who is not well, won't live more than about three months after a hip fracture. But my father's bones mended, a year has passed, and Alzheimer's has devoured more...
...shadow of Sept. 11 looms large over the Olympics, but this security strategy is based on bitter lessons learned years earlier at the Games in Atlanta, where a pipe bomb exploded in a public square, killing a bystander and injuring more than 100 people. President Clinton responded with a directive placing the Secret Service in charge of security for all major public gatherings, including the Olympics; the directive also tasked the FBI with crisis management--anything from hostage rescues on down--and the Federal Emergency Management Agency with coordinating disaster response. Salt Lake City is the first test of Clinton...
...When we ask, Pim insists she is 19. She's probably closer to 12. Less than 1.5 m tall, her platform heels only highlight how short her legs are. Her tissue-stuffed bra emphasizes her flat chest. And the bright green eye shadow and heavy rouge she wears give her all the vampishness of a seventh-grader playing the clown in a school play. The most popular of the girls in her brothel, picked out by up to three customers a day, she insists she has never been happier. But sitting in a restaurant by the Nam Ruak River...
Whether or not Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow on Saturday, the Harvard wrestling team knew on Friday it had only six weekends to build momentum for the EIWA Championships at Lehigh Mar. 9 and 10. While Phil was getting some rays, the team handily defeated Sacred Heart, 33-7, before being edged out 24-18 by No. 22 Hofstra later that evening...
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