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...tempting to describe the ambience of Lanes and Games as unique, except I sadly suspect that it isn’t. I hope the person who arranged the interior decoration was color-blind, but those extraordinary combinations may actually have been considered cool in the early seventies. The walls have a base of faded orange felt over which sail bright red, yellow, green and black stripes. It is as if Bob Marley had fallen into a pool of his own vomit. In fact, it smelled rather like that, as well...
...another thing; contrary to what I said last Monday, section attendance is entirely optional except when we have labs to do (we will only be having two labs this year). So if this stuff is pretty clear and you don’t feel like section is worth your time, there is no need to come; just try not to kill me on Thursday night with mad homework questions if you’re going to try to be a bad*#% and skip section all week...Cheerio...
...here we are again—another case of a dumb jock letting fame get to his head, right? Williams had everything a man could ask for except for healthy legs and the slightest ounce of common sense. Like the O.J. Simpsons and Pete Roses of the world, fame made him feel invincible. And while each of those fallen athletes met different fates, the results were predictably messy...
...trait of any journalist. Long ago, the novelist and journalist John Hersey wrote in a sketch of Henry Luce, "He was amazed and delighted to learn whatever he had not known before." Curiosity is the noblest form of intellectual energy; in any case, your mind goes nowhere without it - except maybe to fanaticism...
...Pressplay, owned by the other two; and a prelaunch trial version of the newly legal Napster. All three are so restrictive, you would think you were downloading homeland-security documents, not 'N Sync. And because the record labels are still squabbling about Internet licensing, nobody has a complete selection except those street-corner kids: morally dubious services like Morpheus, on which free song swapping still flourishes...