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...threw my head back, my feet came around, and I landed at a 45-degree angle. [The doctors] said if I had landed 1 centimeter to the left or right, I would have severed my spinal cord and drowned. What I did do was shatter two vertebrae [in the middle of my back], and they shattered into tiny little pieces. I felt the explosion in my stomach, the vertebrae shot right into my organs...
...Public distaste for Gilmore reached a high last week when a fan threw a Community Chest card on the board assessing Gilmore for street repairs of $40 per house and $115 per hotel. Gilmore smiled and handed the card to a nearby police officer. "It was a low-rent move, but I'm just glad no one got hurt," he chuckled...
...unattended for at least an hour. There were only two unclaimed desks on the entire floor. And even when students are in the library ostensibly studying, they can still be disruptive. Charles J. McNamara ’07 had to spend last Saturday night at Lamont because his roommate threw a party in his room, where he prefers to work. But he says he tries to avoid the library because many students do not see it as a work space. “Lamont’s fine, but it just seems like it’s caught between...
...Sonny are BFF now, because we did the Cha Cha Slide together." MAGGIE MCDARIS, junior at Atlanta's Brookwood High School, on her new Best Friend Forever and dance partner, Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue, who threw an afterparty for Brookwood's prom to promote student safety...
...used to frown upon columnists who threw themselves narcissistic going-away parties in prose, but it turns out that the temptation for retrospective justification is irresistible. And so as I depart, I leave you with a pithy summary of my long project in the form of an admonition: Don’t forget the technology. Don’t forget the transformative influence it has right now, and never underestimate the long-term importance of future invention and progress...