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RECOVERING. Bruce ("Batman") Wayne, 54, millionaire and caped crusader; from injuries received opposing evil; in Gotham City. A muscle-bound villain named Bane broke Wayne's back in a desperate fight last year, resulting in severe spinal trauma that put Wayne in a wheelchair. An alternate Batman has been filling in during Wayne's convalescence. Now walking with the assistance of two canes, Wayne is expected to suffer no permanent disability...
...allowing students to use the same doors, as in the newly renovated, one-entry Weld Hall. The dean says renovations such as this encourage interaction between residents. "Thayer was essentially three different dorms before," Parsons says. "We have put them together into one dorm, and provided them with wheelchair access...
...Wheelchair access, which is required in all new construction by the 1991 Americans With Disabilities Act, is important to reducing some of the stigma associated with being handicapped at Harvard, Parsons says...
After reading about Rudd W. Coffey's homeless exploits, I ran right out and borrowed a wheelchair from University Health Services and sat in it for about two hours. It was a demeaning experience. First of all, it's almost impossible to get around in all this snow and people wouldn't help me; they looked right through me as if I weren't there. Plus, it's impossible to eat lunch at Quincy House--too many stairs. I had to get out and walk up them. I learned from the humiliation I had to go through, the loss...
...motion, from her prompt entrance at 8:10 (royalty is always punctual) to her exhausted departure just before 11. She must cover about 10 miles a night in the mincing steps she takes across the Music Hall expanse. Playing the tacky chanteuse Delores DeLago in mermaid fin and motorized wheelchair, she races around like a Betty Andretti. She'll go supine on the stage, as if it were her analyst's couch, then busily buff the floor with her derriere. If there were windows in this grand Art Deco auditorium, she'd do them...