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...orders to discard the original twelve-to-eighteen-month occupation deployment, that the forces were drawing down, that we were walking away from the mission, and that everybody knew about it. And let me tell you, the Secretary did not like that one bit. After we went in to brief him, he just shut us down. 'This is not going anywhere,' he said. 'Oh, and by the way, leave all the copies right here and don't talk to anybody about...
...discarded plans of my initial dreaming: the sushi bar built over a tank of live fish (how postmodern!); the dumpling restaurant with a twist, where mac and cheese or duck l’orange would be served up in crisp wonton wrappers or savory shumai shells (titled, for its brief reign in theoretical existence, “Dim Sumthing Else”). A few lucky listeners had even become privy to my newest conception of culinary excellence, still turning and tweaking, and much too precious for the pages of such a widely-read campus magazine. But to dream...
...remember the day you got your acceptance letter from Harvard by e-mail, proudly declaring you an official member of the newest incoming class. Not only were you suddenly a college student after four long years in secondary-school purgatory: You were a Harvard student! For that brief moment, the modesty that you exuded as you waited nervously for that letter to arrive flew out the window, along with the inferior acceptance letters of Princeton and Yale. For a split second, you felt like...
...ride—as it is a transplanted European city. So to consider it an Italian community would not only be misrepresenting the Italians across the pond; it would be selling short Boston’s Italian Americans. As we waved goodbye and I followed his wife for a brief tour of the neighborhood, he said in perfect English: “Hey, send me your article when you’re done. Worse comes to worst, I won’t like it. And then I’ll just kill you.” I laughed...
...favorite search engine during season five to search for videos of Marie Osmond on the show. They were looking for one specific video clip that showed her fainting on live television. Subsequent Marie searches focused on the authenticity of her fainting spell, with some queries clearly questioning whether the brief bout of unconsciousness was a publicity conspiracy...