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...what ties the book together is Fisher's struggle with addiction and manic depression. Wishful Drinking is her attempt to gather up a lifetime of memories scattered by electroshock therapy. At one point, she describes being admitted to a locked ward during a psychotic episode. She signed her commitment papers with a single word: shame. It's one of the few paragraphs in Wishful Drinking that doesn't contain a punch line; only when she writes about her brushes with madness does Fisher drop her manic stand-up shtick and let us see, for a moment, what it's there...
...myself for just neglecting to think about getting one till way late in the week,” Higgins said. Although many students went through with sales of their free tickets, some who had advertised available tickets ended up giving them away to friends or keeping them. Lewis M. Ward ’11 said, “I had offers for the ticket of up to $50, but in the end I gave it to a friend who didn’t have a ticket.” Beier Ko ’09, who initially planned to sell...
...tree. Evening.”Two men, dressed in tattered clothes, stand around, loitering, waiting. “Funny,” one says. “Nothing to be done.” Behind them glows an eerie light, the nighttime glare of the levee bordering the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. “How could we use the most enigmatic play of the 20th century to talk about what happened in Katrina?” video artist Paul Chan remembers asking himself on a trip to New Orleans in the fall of 2006. His answer: a staging...
...earthquake struck, flattening their house and burying their wedding nest egg, which they had just withdrawn from the bank. At the time, money was the last thing on Luo's mind. "I wanted to live," she says, as she stands inside her store wearing a puffy orange jacket to ward off the chill. "No one else in the same building made it out, but somehow I survived." Luo walked five days with an injured foot and no shoes, braving runaway boulders and mudslides to make it to safety...
...report the mysterious condition known as Gulf War illness (GWI). According to the study, the symptoms--which include memory loss, chronic muscle pain, fatigue, digestive problems and skin lesions--were likely caused by pills given to troops to protect against nerve gas and by the overuse of pesticides to ward off sand flies. Other factors include exposure to depleted uranium munitions, oil-well fires, nerve agents and vaccines. Nearly 25% of the 700,000 soldiers who fought in Operation Desert Storm are affected by GWI, and many of them have reported that their symptoms have worsened over time. The panel...