A{y5sa Giacobbe edlf.S a page .
Jen Arwood checks captions.
Coffee keeps che siaff going through che night.
9:2c a.m.
1 1:01 a.m.
12:25 p.m.
4: 15 p.m.
4: 3 3 r.m.
Unable to rerrieve
Deitch arrives and
Duggan leaves to
The staff 1s wearing
De pite the
A final hard prmt
the re\mtten bnef
begins a ene of
<mend her I 2 : 30
down. Duggan is
herculean effort,
and the paper 1�
hakespeare cla
.5 : 11 p.m.
nr any of the page
rroubbhooting steps
lying on her back
the computer
finished. Deitch
m the news ect1on,
\\'ith nL) luck. A call
� he ha not lept m
in the middle of
breakdown has
complete the
Duggan calls Deitch
to a tech n ical repre
30 hour . Duggan
the floor. MacLeay
made the
at home ro a k for
-entati\'e at a
i
deadline unreach
computer files onto
ays keeping up
lumred in hi
5 p.m.
rransfer of the
help. He Joe n'r
-oft\\'are company
with chool work is
chair, arms
able. Deitch calls
a di k and i t is
an�wer.
yields no help.
an ohnou·
dangl ing ar his
the Kennebec
ready. The crew
Deitch hang, up the
challenge, but Echo
· ide-. The sun i>
Journal 111 Augu ta,
c loses the office
setting outside,
where the Echo i
and \\'alk outside.
doing more with
although nobody in
printed, to tell
What began as a
9:49 a.m. G 1 gnoux return .
phone. "_orry," he ay . "We have to re-
taffers manage hy
Duggan explain
JL > the pa e . " There
le-s time. "You j u t
the office know
them the paper \\' i l l
glorious, ·unny day
what ha happened
1 a collect1 ·e groan.
ha,·e to commit
that because there
b e arriv i ng late.
has become a
yourself to getting
are no windows.
"They're ooing to
chilly, rainy n ight.
kill u ," says
Duggan, Deitch
MacLeay.
and MacLeay w i l l
and call Dench
e\'en pages mu t be
again. ' n i l no
constructed again
an wer. " Dammit,
from cratch, and all
Deitch, get up,"
of the correction·
U[' >Orne Other
arrival and
that editor ha\·e
thing ," he say>. "]
departure would
4:4
can 't honestly say
under core the
Duggan col lapses
making must be
this [work at the
length of t i me the
he ay mto the phone.
pent two day
the work don e\'en
unshine would be \\'elcome, but it
1f 1 t mean g1\'ing
del iver t h e di k to Augu ta. "[ ha\·e to
p.m.
get back right away
into a chair. "The
because l\·e got
bac k · of my eye
two papers I have
1 0: 1 4 a.m.
made again. The
Echo] doesn't affect
Duggan calls
paper' deadline is
my tudie becau!>e
in the office, a
Deitch again and
le· than <;ix hour·
I'm ure I coulJ
depre
ing
say . Except for a
Duggan. She and
let the phone
away.
1mpro\'e my grade
real 1 :at1on. There
30-minute snack
her colleagues rep
if I weren't domg it,
once wa a c lock in
break, a hower
out from beneath
groggy voice on
1 2 :03 p . m .
but it' a tradeoff
the office but when
and an hour to
the Roberts U nion
the other end.
"Hacksaw" 1s back.
I ' m w i l l ing to make.
i t broke the staff
attend c lass earlier
portico and into
"Deitch, I need
He and G ignoux
The experience i
decided to do
today, Duggan has
the rain.
you," he say .
begin laying out
worth it."
without o that,
been in the Echo
"There'. been a
news page while
according to
office for 26
di a ter."
MacLeay and
MacLeay, "People
Deitch plit up rhe
wouldn't be
correction that
looking at it all the
mu t be redone.
time and going off
ring. Finally, a
raff actually were
to write," ay
ockets hurt," he
traight hours.
to do other thing-."
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