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Yoshi's death unleashes our cooler-than-cool journalist into a series of life-or-death situations that Chaka takes as nonchalantly as Roger Rabbit's pal Eddie Valiant took Toontown. And Adamson, as he did in his book Tokyo Suckerpunch, evokes an animated Tokyo-as-Toontown that is simultaneously vivid, vibrant, gaudy and in glorious decline. It's a big adventure, but Adamson's teen rag writer takes it all with a shrug...
Second baseman Cherry Fu, a Second Team All-Ivy player in 2000, struggled with injuries for her final two seasons but made a valiant return to the field at the end of the season...
...science courses, like Religion 1045: “Thinking About Thinking,” which he co-taught. Undergraduates enjoyed Gould’s own science courses; Science B-16: “History of Life” has long been among the most popular College courses. His valiant efforts to finish teaching that class this semester in spite of his cancer treatment exemplified his commitment to his students. Teaching Fellow John Mathew witnessed Gould’s painful struggles to prepare lectures—and yet Gould remained determined to make up every lecture he missed. Gould?...
...cold May rainstorm forced the Rockefeller Center party crew to throw up tents, as waiters continually swept away a half-inch of rainwater with brooms. (Insert metaphor for the networks vainlly trying to sweep away the tide of cable and audience fragmentation here.) Still it didn't stop your valiant reporter from rubbernecking at Ashleigh Banfield (who held court around a teensy drinks table - or was it Tina Fey?) and swiping the beef carpaccio with both fists from the passed hors d'oeuvres trays...
...civil rights law she inspired, "they are watching me being raped." But survivors of sexual abuse everywhere broke silence because she had. From forced "sex freak of the '70s," she became a beacon of resistance and hope?and changed the debate on pornography forever. Brave, gentle, miraculously resilient and valiant beyond words, Linda never accepted that her violation was constitutionally protected as was her violators' speech. "Why," she asked me, "do pimps' rights matter and mine don't?" Having survived so much and fought so hard, she died without an answer...