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...with a cool setting and rigging it into a fan. We opted for two bottles of glass cleaner instead; we filled them with cold water and madly doused each other. At night this strategy yielded a good 20 seconds of cool, during which we hoped to God to fall asleep...
...Remember sneaking in at 2 a.m. on a Saturday night through the glass sliding door in your brother’s room with the nasty smaste (the crusty combination of smell and taste) of vomit in your sinuses, stumbling drunkenly through the hallway, tripping over the dog and falling asleep lying on your back with your head lolling off the corner...
...then the future and the past, and then my worries about how best to write this article and, for just a few moments, I hit it. It looks like infinite blackness, feels like a separation from my body and seems like the moment right before you fall asleep, only I'm completely awake. It is kind of nice. And then, immediately, I have this epiphany: I could be watching television...
...report will be released this week. Many of the panel's findings will remain secret; Administration officials refused to declassify large portions of the 900-page report. The public version will conclude that U.S. officials could not have prevented the tragedy, but it will criticize government agencies for being asleep at the switch during the two years before the attacks. The FBI failed to notice that terrorists were taking flying lessons and English classes in the U.S. and to deduce their intent; overseas, the CIA failed to penetrate a secret army, numbering in the thousands, that was silently massing...
...hand. A former Abu Sayyaf member working as a janitor gave al-Ghozi details of the best escape route. Before dawn, when al-Ghozi slipped out of the cell and walked out of the prison, one contingent of guards assigned to the nominally high-security block had fallen asleep while another detail had been dispatched outside the prison on a shopping mission. Even then, guards could have reacted quickly to a tip-off from another inmate, but they ignored the information about the break...