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...only to be awakened again by a repeated test of a very powerful audio system. My roommates and I--and no doubt countless dorm inhabitants around us--cursed and spat for a while and decided that if we had anything to do with it, HYPE '96 would meet a swift and sudden death...
...doing a lot more book-sharing than we used to," said Melissa E. Swift '98. "And after a few years you build up a store of books...
More than two centuries later, Jonathan Swift's grim portrait of senescence delivers a double-edged message. On the one hand, it describes the classic image of old age that still predominates: a period of inevitable and distressing physical and mental decline. On the other, it starkly illustrates the folly of life lived too long--a dilemma that is at the heart of today's debate about the consequences of increased longevity...
This lack of definitive or even consistent answers has not stopped Jack and Jackie from landing on best-seller lists, and All Too Human will no doubt follow. For in the way of many guilty pleasures, this gossipfest makes for swift and astounding reading, even if we have heard most of it before. Open either book at will and encounter the drunken Black Jack Bouvier perhaps too attached to his beautiful and precocious daughter; the eager Jack Kennedy pressing himself upon every woman he meets; Max ("Dr. Feelgood") Jacobson administering his amphetamine potions to both President and First Lady. Marilyn...
...people flooded out of the park toward Peachtree Street, a stream of ambulances sped in to carry the wounded to local hospitals. The evacuation was swift and efficient. But even at four in the morning the streets were still populated; authorities had thrown up a non-negotiable security barricade around the park, stranding many people who could not get back to their hotels. Resigned to living through a strange night, many just curled up to sleep on the sidewalks as helicopters whirred overhead. Khaki-clad soldiers marched in formation into the Main Press Center, while men in FBI jackets poked...