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...seek to explore human experience through larger-than-life situations,” Sanderson said. “[Through fantasy and science fiction], we seek to discover the best and worst of humankind...
...same could be said of the Lions’ defense, particularly of brothers Evan and Lou Miller. Lou, the elder sibling, is arguably one of the best defensive players in the league according to Murphy...
Life in quarantine is best described as maddening, yet comfortable. The health and dining services made sure that my co-swine and I were well-accommodated by giving us our own bedrooms. The room was clearly furnished for utility rather than luxury with its two towels and copious quantities of Kleenex: This was a place where you were meant to get better and get out so that the next sickly sophomore could take your place. Standard fare consisted of an abundance of easily ingested foods like bananas, tea, pseudo-ramen, and Jell-o: a far cry from gourmet cuisine...
...still a novelty 10 years later, when the New York Times reported that office workers had "hit on a new and effective scheme of adding to the decorations" at a parade for presidential candidate William McKinley by unfurling hundreds of ticker-tape reels out the window. (See the best and worst sports executives...
...those early years, curmudgeons did their best to rain on the parade. A 1904 letter to the editor urged the New York Times to speak out against the "evil" practice, suggesting that parade horses spooked by falling ticker tape might plow into the crowd on the sidewalk and cause "disaster." (A few years later, an overzealous reveler reportedly neglected to tear the pages out of a phone book and instead threw the whole thing out the window; it struck a passerby and knocked him unconscious.) By 1926, New York Stock Exchange officials had grown concerned about the cost of tossing...