Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crime around the U.S. Occasionally disguised as a priest under the alias of Father O'Neill, a play on his first name, he traveled about the nation to impose edicts and settle disputes between rival Mafia clans. Few mobsters dared to argue with him. Dellacroce, who died in his sleep in a New York City hospital last week at the age of 71, played another role as well: for almost two decades he was an informant...
There was no denying it. Peering into the mirror, lamenting the havok sleep wreaked on a delicate head of hair, I discovered that my hairline had moved. I grabbed the sink for support, and ran my hand back from my forehead, flattening the reed-like protrusions that stood in disarray. "We had a little fun while you were asleep," they seemed to say, but I wasn't concerned with them anymore. It was their dead comrades, fallen in the night, which elicited not concern, but utter horror...
Maybe that's what Thanksgiving is all about, I thought just as I was going to sleep. You throw your life to the winds twice in five days, and by the time the ordeal is over, you are infinitely thankful to be back where you were when you started, and not fighting your way through a mass of elbows, or bouncing around at 10,000 feet, confessing your sins to the Rastafarian in the seat next to you. It makes you glad to be alive...
...week, Room 13 is an all-night source of support and counseling for Harvard undergraduates. "It gives people a place where we can help them listen to themselves," says Deborah C. Cohen '86, one of the program's two co-directors. One man and one woman sacrifice their sleep every night to staff the basement office in Stoughton Hall, providing a referral service to other agencies and listening to and talking about people's problems--serious or major, important...
Gelber says that the wee morning hours are the toughest. "The worst time is between 3:30 and 5. You want to sleep, you know you can't and you also know that you still have three or four hours ahead...