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Harvard diver Jamie Greacen provided the sparse reading-period crowd with its biggest thrill with his spectacular performance in the optional diving event, which he won with an impressive cumulative score of 335.15. Greacen's soaring airborne acrobatics elicited the only wild cheers from a crowd that endured an otherwise dull meet...
...know it don't thrill...
...thing of bad taste, or bad theology, or both ?and just possibly a sign of simple-mindedness or galloping hypocrisy as well. Yet there they are today, down on their knees at prayer meetings. They are pursuing the word day by day instead of settling for the sudden thrill of religion only on Sunday?or only at Christmas and Easter...
Debbie Sze's narrow escape from the agony of defeat came against Michelle Prettyman. Down 4-3, Sze tied the duel at 4-4 then earned the thrill of victory by parrying a Prettyman lunge, then counterattacking into the engineer's chest...
Sommers believes people like to watch escapes because they empathize with the artist. "They want you to be liberated, and they are with you all the way, he says. "Of course, there are some people who want to see you get hurt," he adds. Sommers classifies such thrill-seekers with the type of people who "go to stock-car races and boxing-matches...