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...help but oblige. (Batting practice was sadly off-limits, due to the number of very fragile windows in the very near vicinity.) We must have worn his shoulder out, demanding ever higher pop-flies to field and harder ground balls to retrieve as the sunlight slowly disappeared, hours after we’d first left the house.Somehow we made do indoors. Two nights before a game he’d pull out his yellow legal pad and we’d go to work drawing up our plan of attack. Giddy with anticipation, I’d invariably have drawn...
...that your book is out, are you going to disappear again? [Laughs.] I never really was trying to be this mysterious figure. During both campaigns, I was rather busy trying to get my job done. There was a flood of phone calls that Heather and I got from reporters. My reaction was, I have other things to worry about...
...Unfortunately, that instinct didn’t magically disappear the moment we opened our acceptance letters. As relentlessly future-oriented overachievers, we can’t help but look onward to the next challenge. Law schools, medical schools, Ph.D. programs: Options like these require that we spend our four years at Harvard just about as stressed as we were in high school...
Like a pentimento, New Orleans has long been a canvas repeatedly repainted. Paint well, my artistic homeboys and girls, and carefully. Preserve the previous layers, and let them guide your brushwork. One false stroke, and the magic could disappear...
...made it his second full-time job (unpaid at that) to help independent restaurants thrive. He travels at least once a week, cultivating new chapters. And so far, every city that has asked him to speak has become a member. "If independent restaurants were to disappear, then everywhere you go in this country would be the same," says Luria...