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...black and white images are of wartime in the 1940s. Nestor Burma, private detective, sticks his head out of the train window as it pulls out of the busy urban station. In the crowd of soldiers and milling civilians he spies his chunky colleague, Bob, who chases after the train, waving for Burma to get off. Suddenly, Bob clutches his chest. He shouts an address, "120, rue de la Gare," and falls, the back of his coat soaked in blood from multiple gunshots. As Burma tumbles out of the train, a beautiful girl in a trench coat stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Do You Say "Dirty Flatfoot" in French? | 12/5/2003 | See Source »

...strode onto the practice field at Stony Brook University for the first scrimmage of his final collegiate season, Harvard senior wide receiver Kyle Cremarosa knew that the window on his football career was slowly beginning to close. He would only later realize that it was about to be slammed shut...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Five and Counting... | 12/2/2003 | See Source »

...while maintaining their four years of eligibility in cases of injury so long as the “red-shirts,” as the sidelined players are called, compete only within a five-year period in accordance with a similar NCAA guideline that gives students a five-year window in which to compete...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Five and Counting... | 12/2/2003 | See Source »

...month later, Stephen Bohler, 18, of Dayton, Ohio, made the same fatal dive. And on Oct. 16, Michelle Gluckman, 19, a sophomore from Brooklyn, New York, threw herself from the sixth-floor window of an off-campus apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Campus | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...poster taped to his mirror read, “#7 Can Kick That Ball 2 Heaven...Just Use Ur Golden Toe. From Your: Cheerleader Shelli.” Red, white and black helium balloons bobbed against the ceiling. The cheerleaders had tethered the gold mylar seven to the window fan. I took pictures, supposing that nobody would believe me otherwise. My brother’s room seemed (well, seems—he’s not likely to dismantle it any time soon) so unbelievable because it seemed so anachronistic. I live 67 miles from Cambridge; it felt like another...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Deciding to Punt | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

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