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...About 3:30 a.m. on Tuesday, I just woke up [sick],” said Forrester H. Cole ’02, a Dunster House resident. Cole said he thought his Monday night dinner of pork chops and rice could be responsible...
Peng seems to have made all the right moves. Two nights after her final-round interview with Goldman Sachs she received a late-night phone call—not of the obscene kind. Her roommate woke her with the unexpected news that someone from Goldman was calling. “I was sleepy and a little dazed and confused,” Peng laughs. “So I didn’t sound that excited on the phone. But after I got off I realized what was going on.” Peng didn’t accept...
...special forces had a busy night on Jan. 24. A mile away, they attacked a second Uruzgan compound, which had been seized by rogue warlord Mohammed Yousif - a challenger for the title of district chief. At 2am helicopters landed nearby and soldiers stormed his perimeter. "A great noise woke me up," says the steely Yousif, "and when I got out of my room I could see Americans." He claims he ordered his men not to open fire, but "when I knew they were going to kill us and bombard, I escaped." Yousif and a small coterie of aides evaded...
...after Thanksgiving, Mike woke up and told E.J. he couldn't face going to work. He had often scoffed with his co-workers about the emotional help the department had been offering, but on this day he scheduled an appointment with a counselor to request a medical leave. His best friend Rob drove him to the session. Mike answered the counselor's questions--Are you having trouble eating? No. Sleeping? Sometimes--but he didn't volunteer any information. Still, he left feeling a little lighter and carrying explicit instructions to take a vacation with his wife...
...Astaire, instead of handing it Dick Powell for the 1937 "On the Avenue"? Anyway, the song was a hit, with four top-12 versions (including Billie Holiday?s). It cuddled up and went to sleep for a dozen years; and then, when Les Brown revived the tune, it woke...