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Noonan is, unsurprisingly, exultant upon landing. “I felt free,” he says. Later, he clarifies, “I didn’t actually feel free until [the instructor] took off the straps. It hurt like a bitch until [then].” But overall, he finds the entire English language insufficient to characterize the experience, save for one dictionary entry...
...both varsity athletes, were the finalists in an intense tournament this spring, but it didn’t take their athletic prowess to reach the top. All they needed were their shining smiles, flawless features, alluring accents—and their athletic bodies didn’t hurt, either. Cornish and Tselentis were the champions of the first-ever Crimson Chaos competition, a website set up to rank senior boys at Harvard by their physical appearance. Starting in a single-elimination bracket of 64 attractive seniors, Cornish and Tselentis, both chosen for FM’s fifteen hottest freshmen four...
...even the girl wearing electrical tape over her nipples fazes the seniors. “It’s going to hurt when she takes that off,” Goodwin snorts...
...pass him on the street without receiving a warm greeting. I have even witnessed Jonathan chastise himself for failing to say hello to somebody who had been in one of his sections in a previous semester, because he’d worried that his moment of silence might have hurt the feelings of this marginal acquaintance. As someone so bad with faces that I can barely identify people presently in my sections, I couldn’t believe Jonathan reacted as if he’d been profoundly hurt at the remote possibility that he’d slighted someone...
...said, ‘I thought I’d better pick something that will keep me from getting hurt, so I chose the position where there’s a penalty for hurting me,’” she says. “That showed you how smart...