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...moderation, Twitter probably isn’t so bad. It’s the over-users who tweet every action and the attention-seekers posting introspection who stop me from using it (other than for HUDS menu listings). I just don’t want to turn into user Rogelio Umaña, who tweeted this gem last year: “I just found out somebody is stalking me on the Internet! :0 Should I worry? Nah! I embrace...
...even be out of place in “Nobody Move.” It’s that when the $2.3 million dollars that kicks around between the characters (you already knew there was some sum, even if you hadn’t been told) goes to the bad guys, the protagonists—and the reader—don’t really care. Subverting a genre obsessed with materialism isn’t exactly difficult, and Johnson doesn’t leave much to work with—but he’s no sadist...
...help with the Hurricane Katrina cleanup. His antipoverty work would take him across the country, and I knew that. When he told me that the political action committee was going to have behind-the-scenes videos made of some of these efforts, it didn't seem like that bad an idea, and it certainly didn't occur to me to ask about who was making them. It didn't occur to me that at a fancy hotel in New York, where he sat with a potential donor to his antipoverty work, he would be targeted by a woman who would...
...know himself why he had allowed it to happen. In months of talking with him, I have come to understand his liaison with this woman, if I have, not as a substitute for me. Those with any fame or notoriety or power attract people for good reasons and bad. Some want to contribute and some want to take something away for themselves. They flatter and entreat, and it is engaging, even addictive. They look at our lives, which from the outside in particular are pictures of joy and plenty, and they want it for themselves. (Read an interview with Elizabeth...
...tubes shoved into her throat, her eyes rarely flickering. Although she was unable to speak, Bonilla felt an affinity with her as he did with all his fellow patients, who egged each other on with calls to keep fighting. But she slipped away and became a reminder about how bad things could get. "It was the darkest moment I have ever had," says Bonilla, who would spend five days in the hospital. "I just tried to think about better times, about my wife and children, to give me the strength...