But that's a feeble "protect-us-from-ourselves" argument and a horrible confession, too.

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The location scouts did their job all too well and found the most horrible house in England, a concrete cube in a rusty, sweltering wasteland.

NEWYORKER: The Cement Garden

With a horrible irony, he is haunted by the fear that people will assume that he too must have taken drugs, simply because he was a champion in an era of widespread doping.

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After about a week since the horrible story hit the media the aftershock is like a bad car accident: nobody wants to get too close to Penn State, but everyone wants to watch.

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