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Blurry-eyed, I hefted my Sunday Times and Globe (promptly delivered by The Harvard Crimson to my door each and every morning for an unbelievably low price) and staggered into the common room, only to notice that something was amiss...a neat pile of Tommy's pizza boxes...an unvacuumed rug...a naked girl...our nice collection of textbooks still in their original cellophane wrappings. Wait a minute, what was that?!?! There, sleeping on the futon, was a girl wearing nothing but my plaid shirt. I crept around the futon, tilting my head to the side to recognize...
...look at her and we realized that this clearly wasn't an act of divine providence. On the subject of divine providence, I want to be perfectly clear that aside from my shirt, this girl was completely naked. Although it didn't strike us at first, the crumpled pile of discarded clothes in the corner that usually comes with a naked person just wasn't there--there were no pants, no underwear, nothing except a sweater on a hook in the bathroom. We found this more than a little intriguing...
...Great in Egypt, but now another has clearly hit pay dirt. Today, French archaeologist Jean Leclant unveiled a previously unknown, 4,000-year-old pyramid at Sakkara, a locale famous for its step-pyramid (an early model). Long hidden in the sand, the royal monument looks more like a pile of rock than the great pyramids on the Giza plateau, which lie north. Inscriptions found at the site dedicate it to Queen Meritites, who (for the genealogically-minded) may have been the daughter of Pharaoh Pepi I, who ruled during the 6th Dynasty...
Suddenly a fireman heard a thin voice crying for help as though from deep in a cave. Dana Bradley, 20, lay in the darkness of the basement under a pile of cement girders, bleeding and her body dangerously cooling in a foot of water. But when a team of four fire fighters found her, they faced one harsh decision after another. That southwest corner of the building was highly unstable; there were girders smashed everywhere, with hundreds of tons of the remaining building above them. Bradley was lodged in a space so small that the doctors could scarcely reach...
...year so I'd make a lot of money," said Dung, a former schoolteacher. Afterward "I invested $40,000 in a piece of land outside Hanoi and sold it 10 days later for $57,000. Not bad for a long-term investment, eh?" In thanksgiving, he heaved a pile of fake $100 bills and plastic coins into the offering fire, quickly stepping aside for the next supplicant...