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Whether the reason is the excitement of getting caught, a thrill of thumbing one’s nose at same-sex restrooms, or just unrestricted animal lust, hooking up in a bathroom shower shared by all the residents of a floor or even a large room is an appalling disregard for the welfare of the students one lives with...
...It’s going to be a real thrill,” Meyers said...
...student-athletes, the mourners understood the intrinsic value of a team. They knew the bonds formed by shared struggle and pain, strengthened in losses and celebrated in victories. They knew the tenuous thrill of relying upon someone else to be fierce in competition and supportive in practice. They had learned, together, how unforgiving the world can be in competition and defeat. They were all members of a team, and at that vigil, in remembrance of their brethren, they were all teammates...
Part of the thrill of reading his tales of family life as one of six children is constantly wondering, Can that possibly be true? Does his father really hoard expired foodstuffs and eat them rotten? Is his brother Paul truly the profane white trash Sedaris describes? Could his mother have actually been that surly? Where other memoir writers, even the funny ones, slink to the sentimental, Sedaris heads the other way. And yet he portrays these characters with unjudging sympathy. He's tender about them...
...Cholla where he got his political start, he is no longer a hero. Just ask Ko Seong Ju. More than 50 years ago, Ko worked the printing press for a local newspaper that Kim was running. Kim once gave him a ride along the beach in a jeep, a thrill at a time when few people in the country had cars. Despite the fond memories, Ko now complains that Kim has done little to help the struggling local economy: "We expected a President from this region to do something for us. Now things are worse than before." Having ignored...