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...somehow do things while they?re skating besides just skating, which is impressive enough. Far more important, hockey made me seem kind of tough. I hoped that if someone wanted to pick a fight with me, he would think twice about it, fearing I?d know how to blind him by pulling the back of his sweater over his head before punching him repeatedly in the face. Second, not knowing much about guy stuff like cars, sex, World War II or woodworking, I could seem like a hockey expert by knowing the name of the Rangers? goalie and what...
...anti-communist policies in Central America. But if Negroponte and his wife hadn't ended up adopting five Honduran children, he would probably just as soon have forgotten his tenure there. The posting proved to be the black mark in his career. He was accused of turning a blind eye to human-rights abuses by the Honduran government; he says he saw no evidence of them. Just as the U.S. is being criticized for abusing and torturing suspects in the war on terrorism, critics are sure to try to make that period an issue in his confirmation hearings...
Chronic pain is a thief. It breaks into your body and robs you blind. With lightning fingers, it can take away your livelihood, your marriage, your friends, your favorite pastimes and big chunks of your personality. Left unapprehended, it will steal your days and your nights until the world has collapsed into a cramped cell of suffering...
...most grievous crime of all seems to have been her willingness to defend unpopular clients. Her list of clientele includes a Mafia hit man, a man accused of trying to kill police officers, and a blind Egyptian sheikh convicted of terrorist activities—Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman. It is on his account that she has been accused and convicted of aiding terrorism...
...when I returned to Cambridge after winter break, I found myself questioning for the first time my color-blind dating style. I was sliding smoothly back into the pattern my grandfather had warned me about. Why, I wondered, was it so easy? I’ve never even had a serious conversation about race with any of my boyfriends. Shouldn’t race be more of an issue? It’s an especially difficult question for me because, until coming to Harvard, I didn’t know a single interracial couple. At Harvard, on the other hand...