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...testament to his hectic schedule, Fried tells the story of one day last spring when he woke up at 5:45 am to lift weights, returned to the rink at 3:00 pm after class, and then sprinted over to the lacrosse field for a 5 o’clock practice...

Author: By John R. Hein and Chris Schonberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Two-Sport Superstar | 4/9/2003 | See Source »

When the subject of all the anguish, “her,” woke and detached herself from a metaphorical mattress placed at the back of the stage, her high feminine voice appropriately sliced through the fog of angst created by her unworthy lover...

Author: By Julie S. Greenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Review: English Operas Make Classic Art Modern | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, who used 160 pseudonyms, the most famous being Lenin, woke up at 10:30 a.m. on the day he was to die. About 18 months earlier, he had suffered a massive stroke and never fully recovered, so 10:30 was not so late for the old revolutionary to rise. He had some coffee, but it did not take, and he went back to bed. By evening Lenin was running a high fever, as Oxford historian Robert Service recounts in Lenin: A Biography. Lenin's Bolshevik buddy Nikolai Bukharin was there at the end: "When I ran into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jan. 21, 1924 | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...Woke up this morning...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saved By the Bell: Rowed to Ruin | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...turning in his thesis, Hist and Lit concentrator Mike P. O’Reilly ’03 went out to Daedalus with his thesis adviser and several other grad students. O’Reilly can’t remember anything that happened after 8:15 p.m., but he woke up Saturday to find out he’d been appointed to a senior lecturer position in the Department of African-American Studies?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gossip Guy | 3/6/2003 | See Source »

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