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February 20, 2014 05:50 pm PST
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This is the best opening paragraph in any news storyever
This has got to be the best lede of all time. And a great article, too. Caitlin Flanagan, writing about fraternities, law, liabilities, and corruption in the Atlantic magazine:One warm spring night in 2011, a young man named Travis Hughes stood on the back deck of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house at Marshall University, in West Virginia, and was struck by what seemed to himunder the influence of powerful inebriants, not least among them the clear ether of youth itselfto be an excellent idea: he would shove a bottle rocket up his ass and blast it into the sweet night air.
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