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...fellow debaters go to each other’s weddings and anniversaries? Or: van rides back to Cambridge over Thanksgiving singing Christmas carols; eating pancakes at an off-the-road-diner in Western Pennsylvania; “working all-nighters in the concrete block debate office of that era, windowless, in the basement of Quincy House”; “emerging for breakfast at dawn to continue a discussion on the First Amendment implications of noise regulation, or exhausted but exalting over having discovered a data error in the latest unpublished study on the effects of unemployment on stress...
Natascha Kampusch's story is perhaps even more troubling. The Austrian girl was abducted at age 10 and held for eight years in a windowless cellar by her abductor, Wolfgang Priklopil. She ran away in August 2006. Yet upon learning that he had thrown himself in front of a train a few hours after she escaped, she reportedly burst into tears. "All I can say is that, bit by bit, I feel more sorry for him," Kampusch said in a 2007 documentary intended to mark her first year of freedom, calling Priklopil a "poor soul - lost and misguided." (Experts note...
...works in a windowless 8-by-8-ft. server closet, like a Web Wizard of Oz ("It gets really hot with the door shut, so meetings have to be short," he says), admits he knows what he's looking for only when he sees it. "You can't really explain why it's funny," he says. "That's part...
...ethnic Georgians before the 2008 war, the village is now empty. Every house has been demolished and the villagers have all fled to Georgia. Plants grow between the heaps of bricks and stone. The school, which had been recently repaired before the war, today stands faded pink and windowless. Looters, whom locals claim do not exist, have stripped the place - even digging the wiring out of the walls. They have taken everything but the Georgian-language textbooks...
...shouldn't watch them getting made. But who among us has not wondered about sausages - or about where the prepared food actually comes from in an upscale purveyor like Dean & DeLuca? DeLucie worked at a Dean & DeLuca fresh out of cooking school, and he has the answer: a windowless, battleship-gray underground kitchen, where a Flying Dutchman crew of lost, disaffected and recently deinstitutionalized - but not necessarily untalented - cooks labors robotically over 25-lb. (11 kg) stainless-steel bowls of Red Bliss potato salad...