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Truth be told, I’m seeing the tail end of it now—the worst of it has passed. Even so, people are still seething to themselves, silently hating their jobs and the companies that hacked away their own people, actively seeking headhunters or packing their bags and hopping on a flight out of here. But it was when the atmosphere of turmoil was much worse back in the spring that a coworker had dug out the old newspaper advertisement and had pasted it on the wall. For, as someone later explained...
...Brenda Taylor ’01. Taylor, who placed third at U.S. Nationals in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles in June, ranks 16th on the world performance with a personal best of 55.46 seconds. The hurdles preliminaries begin on Sunday, while the high jump will be held at the tail end of the 10-day meet with preliminaries next Friday and the finals two days later...
...Flosenzier turned toward the screaming children and saw blood coloring the ocean. He and another man sprinted into the surf and found the 7.4-ft., 200-lb. shark about to roll away, its jaw on Jessie's arm. Vance, who trains for triathlons, grabbed the shark by its sandpapery tail and tried to pull, but it would not budge. He yanked again, and Jessie fell away, his arm ripping, as the shark clamped down. Aware that two girls were still farther out in the water, Vance walked backward, pulling the shark along the sandy bottom of the shallow sea toward...
...decent money, but when he came home for a visit, he learned his son had died. Unwilling to leave his family again, he turned to the unpredictable fishing trade. His dark skin and curly hair dusted with salt from his last trip out to sea, holding the dried stingray tail he uses like sandpaper on the boat's many rough edges, he tells me that the youngest of his three children is only two years old, "so it seems I will work for the rest of my life...
...Dear Hawthornius,” Longfellow wrote, “not the comet himself can unfold a more glorious tail...