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...regularly strapped into a specially designed feeding chair that immobilizes the body at the legs, arms, shoulders and head. Then a plastic tube, sometimes as much as 50% bigger than the type commonly used for feeding incapacitated patients, was inserted through his nose and down his throat--a procedure that can trigger nausea, bleeding and diarrhea...
...genuinely cared about my undergraduate experience and, by proxy, the entire student body.I first met Larry on my third full day at Harvard for my first freshman advising meeting. I still remember walking through the big green door at the end of Mass. Hall, my stomach in my throat and my hands somewhat fidgety as I nervously awaited his arrival. The next thing I knew, I was trailing the most powerful man at the University, who seemed 10 feet tall, to go out to lunch.But Larry broke the thick ice with ease. Instead of interrogating me about my academic credentials...
...cigar-shaped fiberglass boat into the swamps last month, a Nigerian naval officer aboard a warship in the port city of Warri warned me not to go on. "Even we don't go there," he said, motioning along the Warri River. Then he slowly drew a finger across his throat...
...Also Rises. This particular one didn't go as well as the editor hoped, I'm sure, because I was very phlegmy. I had an allergy for three whole days. So the poor editor is going to have to edit out three or four hours of [throat clearing...
...when I was married to him [at age 14], though I didn't know it then. We also didn't know he'd been married three times before. He beat me so often you wouldn't believe it if I told you. Once, he grabbed me by the throat, held a knife to it, and said he'd butcher me like a lamb. Another time, he tried to throw me out of a 12-story window. Another, he beat me with a bicycle chain. By the time I took the children and ran away from him, we'd all seen...