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These courageous souls usually take their abuse in stride and with a sense of humor. Originally from Hawaii, Mike Maciszewski says he is often reminded that he is in fact no longer there, to which he responds "I know, but I wish I was." He says wearing shorts "makes me feel like I'm not so far away from home." But this explanation hardly seems sufficient for all shorts freaks, some of whom hail from less tropical climates. Another possible motivation for this bizarre behavior might be to show off their sexy legs, though Tim Griffiths recounts a female friend...
...that my last add/drop form has been handed in to my senior tutor, I can get on with the normalcy of my semester. After a few groovy parties, several B- papers and some (far-fetched) job applications, I feel like I've hit my stride. Ah, there's nothing like February at Harvard! I'm so busy being busy that I've almost forgotten that my love life (drunken sexual notwithstanding) has begun to resemble Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle: depressing, slurred and capable of driving one to smoke and drink...a lot. Where is my knight in shining...
...three actors seem to reach their stride in this second scene. Sheldon Dane delivers his lines with the steady assurance of a ten-year-old mystic. Felicity Huffman deftly portrays a woman hovering between control and breakdown. Ed Begly Jr., once he gets comfortable, evokes a seemingly passive character torn by anger and self-loathing...
...sign Darcey Bussell gave of future greatness. She started late, at age 13, at London's Royal Ballet School, where her contemporaries were already at the third level. Patricia Linton, an important teacher there, remembers telling her she had better hurry up or give up. "Darcey took it in stride, the logic of training. All her moves were generous, and she had a lovely, open honesty...
None of those frenzied maneuvers did anything to stop the war. The Serbs hardly broke stride on their march to Bihac, and the battle went very much according to their plan. They hit Sarajevo with artillery and sniper fire and confined more than 275 blue helmets to their barracks around Sarajevo, turning them into virtual hostages. Determined to crush the Fifth Corps of the Muslim- led Bosnian army based at Bihac, the Serbs bombarded the town for days, driving most of its army defenders and 70,000 civilians into basements and shelters. Ground troops then pressed into the zone...