Word: slope
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However, if you feel you just have to get some real skiing in, try Buttermilk Mountain. It has the shortest black run in the world, the "Wall of Death." Spend ten seconds going straight downhill, head straight back up the adjoining slope before you fall and then tell your friends back home how you survived a black slope...
Just remember not to lose your balance when they cheerily ski past you on the Wall, a hellish black slope tastefully adorned with rocks and trees. You're never too young or too short to ski in Aspen...
...neared the top of the slope, it occurred to me that the instructor never told me how to get off the lift. So I flopped gracelessly off and fell on my side in the snow. My right ski came...
Halfway down the hill, though, I somehow began to. After zigzagging slowly down the top half of the slope, I picked up speed as my group slid closer and closer to the bottom of the hill. Again and again I jammed my poles in the snow and pushed off with every erg of energy my sunken pectorals and triceps could produce. My nose, exposed, throbbed, but I didn't care because I was in motion...
This may seem like a great loss considering the moral bankruptcy of the army's discrimination, but if Harvard starts to pick and choose what kink of money students can use to pay their tuition, they will engage in a slippery slope that will leave a lot of us paying our money to other institutions...