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...turned our backs to the waves because our life vest in the front has a little pocket of air you can breathe if you're under water. I could hear each wave from behind me like a freight train coming. Then it sounded like a jet going past, as it hit me in the back like a 20-lb. sledgehammer. The waves were like five-story buildings--light green, with whitecaps on top. As they broke over me, it all turned a real royal blue, a real pretty, beautiful blue because of the light shining through...
...Yesterday, while walking down Mount Auburn in my orange vest, a friend of mine eagerly pointed out that I was being trendy by wearing the "Official Color of the Millennium." Yes, my friends, orange is the official color of Y2K. And no one knows why. Surely, the spokesperson for orange didn't bribe the Official Millennial Committee (though I have a feeling that this committee is helmed by the Gap CEO who made orange trendy in the first place). If anyone knows how orange was chosen as the most important color of 1000 years, please drop me a line...
...brief earlier acquaintance with him makes this tragedy painfully real," said MIT president Charles M. Vest shortly after Guy's death. "And it is a grim reminder of so many other needless deaths throughout the country, every year, of young people how foolishly involve themselves with drugs...
...Campus Police Department has worked intensely to investigate matters surrounding this tragic incident," Vest said. "We have taken similar actions in the past, and I can assure you that if needed, we will take them in the future...
Though the investigation is not complete, Vest said MIT police have uncovered information regarding illegal drug use on campus...