Word: detour
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...Middle American normality: flags fluttering over front porches, hand-painted signs tacked to trees announcing weekend garage sales, white-haired elders watering lawns, teenage boys working on cars. But somehow, as Fisher traveled that brief and reassuring stretch of terrain day after day, her life took the sort of detour that is every parent's nightmare. She is accused of becoming a prostitute by age 15, meeting customers through an escort service and sustaining contact via a beeper that she showed off in the high school girls' room. Far worse, she is charged with falling in love with an alleged...
...course, calling the last 28 years a detour does not do Ganz justice...
...After a detour that lasted nearly three decades, the 48-year-old Ganz is back at the College finishing his senior year...
...past the law since the days of Congressman Charles Poston. Known as the "Father of Arizona" for his campaign for territorial status, Poston set a bad example for later generations of politicians when he set out for Washington to claim his congressional seat in 1864 but took a scenic detour -- through Panama -- at a cost to taxpayers...
Carlson made a detour into journalism in 1980, after getting her law degree from George Washington University. By 1987 she was acting managing editor of the New Republic and joined TIME in 1988. As deputy bureau chief, she helps decide which events we should cover. This week's NATION story on the abuse of congressional privileges is one example. Some members of Congress have been grumbling that the episode is being overblown. Not so, insists Carlson. "It says something important about the cocoon of privilege that members of Congress live...