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...having fun. But you are also "enriching yourself," thus justifying such a significant expenditure of free time. Delightful as these activities may be, they are still useful, productive, or at the very least, "rewarding." They are not the same as, say, playing card games. Or going window-shopping. Or re-reading old mail. Or going for a walk--not jogging, not power-walking, but just a pointless walk. Or talking with friends in the dining hall for an extra two hours. Or reading Cosmopolitan. Or playing "Doom...
Philip C. Gale, a 19 year-old MIT undergraduate, apparently jumped out of a 15th floor window of an MIT science building shortly after 7:30 p.m. last Friday night. Gale was pronounced dead on arrival at Massachusetts General Hospital...
Gale is thought to have thrown a chair through the thick plate glass window of the Green Building before he supposedly jumped. Students in East Campus Dormitory across form the Green Building heard the breaking glass...
...Right after that I heard the crash of something hitting the ground," said Sniffen, referring to the object that presumably went through the window. "And then (I heard) the scream that make me look out the window and then I Saw him on the ground," Sniffen said...
...already be asking, was such pageantry the necessary complement of a first-class book or, like so much ceremony, a feat of window-dressing staged around a hollowness of ideas? In other words, did author and text deserve the worshipful two hours carved out for them...