Word: manual
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Resident Assistant's room, not realizing that it was her RA, Ryan "Stack" Clark, whose body had been blocking the door of 4040. With Clark not in his room, Donohue made an odd decision. She went back to her room, got dressed for class, grabbed her lab manual for Chemistry, and went to meet her boyfriend for breakfast...
...Font, his heartrending description—a distinctly youthful mix of exuberance and confusion—combines action with perception, physical anatomy with clichéd poetry: “Then everything turned into a succession of concrete acts and proper nouns and verbs, or pages from an anatomy manual scattered like flower petals, chaotically linked.” In another particularly moving scene, “the mother of Mexican poetry” recalls seeing soldiers and tanks herding captive students and professors into a van “like something from a World War II movie...
...read “Moby Dick,” but I never thought to ask whether my prof had.Bayard’s book is in some ways a higher brow cousin of CollegeHumor.com’s “Faking It,” a manual for how to talk about things, specifically books, about which you are ignorant. It is a book that provides validation and comfort for non-readers, arguing that people feel unnecessary guilt for not having read a book.Bayard is attempting to alleviate their guilt and give them the tools to avoid feeling excluded...
...quite possible that Woolmer's death, caused according to the pathologist "due to asphyxia as a result of manual strangulation," is completely unrelated to cricket. Jamaica has one of the highest rates of murder in the world. But the hotel the team was staying in was well protected, and Jamaican police say there was no sign of forced entry. They have fingerprinted and questioned Pakistan's players and support staff, as well as hotel staff, and are studying videotapes from the hotel's security cameras. The tragedy of this incredible tale is not only that Woolmer is dead, but that...
...Slip a few eyebrow-raising titles into his bag. Try “Dearest Pet: On Bestiality” and “A Manual of Tests for Syphilis...