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...that welcoming to foreigners. But there I was in Sofia, on my way to the public drinking fountains where locals fill up old Coke bottles with hot mineral water, when a lady pointed out that the bottle of wine I was carrying had broken through its plastic bag. I tucked the bottle back in as best I could and said thank you--good deed done, as far as I was concerned--but the woman kept cheerily talking in Bulgarian as she emptied one of her own shopping bags and insisted I take it to replace my ripped...
...scoring output over the weekend gave him 1,042 points for his career, good for 21st on the Crimson list. Now, however, that career is over. After the game, Cusworth sat for the last time in front of his locker, its contents packed into a gym bag open at his feet, and faced the prospect of leaving school, and his teammates, to begin preparing in earnest for a future in professional basketball. “Putting the nametag in this bag is probably one of the hardest things I’ve done since I’ve been here...
...then, it was too late. A local Israeli noticed the Arab youth walking into a bakery. "I saw a man with a black coat and a bag," Benny Mazgini told Israeli radio. "For Eilat, where it is hot, it is strange to see someone walking with a coat. I said to myself, 'Why is this idiot dressed that...
...thought things through. Why is there a huge farm bill and no bill for struggling autoworkers? Why did we invade Iraq in search of nuclear weapons, but not North Korea? Hillary Clinton's description of her beliefs, quoted above, sounds more like a charity fund-raiser gift bag--a little of this, a little of that--than a coherent philosophy. Her competitors are no better...
...Australia's pre-eminent men of letters, Rodney Hall travels lightly. Look into his black shoulder bag and you'll simply find a 3B pencil fixed to an octavo notebook with an elastic band. These days it's all the writer needs for his mobile office, as his best tool is a superbly exercised imagination. Ever since the then aspiring young poet left Brisbane for a 10,000-km walking trek around the Mediterranean almost 50 years ago, Hall has worked best off the leash. Much of his creatively vast colonial trilogy, which began with 1988's Captivity Captive...