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...shared clothes, dryed each other’s tears, softened each others’ depressions, nestled together on futons. And there is some of this intimacy even with acquaintances, even with people living on your hall, in your House. You have shared bathrooms with them; they have seen you stagger down to breakfast in your pajamas, bleary-eyed; you have held the doors for each other, hurrying between classes or returning home at the end of a long night. It is an intimacy forced by the presence of so many young people living together, studying, absorbed in the same sort...
...matter how much resolve they have mustered, the tears come within seconds. They do not cry out, though. They just well up soundlessly and stare at the seconds ticking down on the stopwatch. After half a minute, Yang stands up and lifts the girls off the blocks. They stagger with the first step, their oversized thigh muscles visibly twitching. By the second or third step, the tremors and the tears are gone. When a child does this six days a week all year long, save a short holiday at Lunar New Year, there are only so many tears...
...stop at Shepherd’s Bush Green past midnight, you’ll see how hard it is to understand, much less summarize, a city like this in the space of an essay. In between lovely greens, brooding men threaten another with knives; drunken people stagger around looking for a light; forlorn homeless wander past into the dark of the park; someone breaks a car window; friends laugh and urinate on storefronts; the police pass, looking for someone, maybe...
...past life came back to haunt him last Sunday. On February 26, 2001, after chairing the Clinton-appointed National Commission on Terrorism, Bremer remarked in a speech, “The new administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem of terrorism. What they will do is stagger along until there’s a major incident and then suddenly say, ‘Oh, my God, shouldn’t we be organized to deal with this?’” When the quote resurfaced last weekend, the prescient proconsul hastily apologized for his earlier...
...outside lane,” junior Gretchen Weingarth said. “The stagger is about two feet, so we had a two foot lead to start the race. We were even with Yale going into the turn, and they took about three-fourths of a boat length on the turn, which was more than we thought was possible...