Word: sickingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This was not an unusual occurrence: that miserable machine called in sick more often than your average Massachusetts state employee. But this time, there was no service technician who could show up for a quick fix: Governor Michael Dukakis had forbidden all civilian travel under a state of emergency that was to last almost a week. Not even Pat Sorrento, the Emperor of The Crimson's shop, could make it through the snow to rescue...
America's legal system is laced with protections for people who are too sick to know what they are doing or what is best for them. But as last week's proceedings in the trial of the alleged Unabomber showed, the law doesn't quite know what to do with someone who may be both crazy and cunning. The former Berkeley math professor managed, with his shifting demands and refusal to cooperate, to twist the case into a knot of conflicting legal rights that only a mathematician could untangle. Who should really shape the defense: lawyer or client? Can attorneys...
...People have this notion of California as kind of flaky and moronic," says Jesse O. Kellerman '01, who is originally from Los Angeles. "Sometimes I'll play into it, `cause I get sick of explaining to people that I'm not a drug addict or that I don't go to breakfast with movie stars, that I didn't go to school with Dylan...
Helen Hunt plays Carol perfectly: more than just a foil for Nicholson's humor, she captivates both his and the audience's attention whenever on screen. Carol, struggling between her sick son, her job and unsatisfying relationships with men, is both desperate and dignified. The movie itself, like Melvin, seems to be falling a little bit in love with her. At times she holds the screen in silence for a moment and nearly stares Melvin into sensibility...
...first dance with a girl there," he says. The reverie ends when Ball walks to the end of a pier where the sulfur smell of marsh grass rises, as rank as the tale he unspools. An estimated 40% of American slaves arrived first at this spot. Confused, terrified, usually sick, they spent two weeks quarantined in "pest houses" or onboard ship. Those who got better sailed on to Charleston and bondage. Those who didn't turned the island into a mass grave. "This ground is soaked in blood," says Ball...