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Instead of calling Jones into his office for a meeting, Gov. W. Mitt Romney (R) often appears, unannounced, in the House Minority Leader’s doorway...
Gross, unphased by the tumult of his office, listens attentively to his fellow professor, ushers the film crew through the narrow doorway, takes a phone call, prints his schedule and finishes his blueberry yogurt without a hint of stress or panic...
...crosses the doorway and moves to diagonal corner...
...doorway of what would charitably be described as a hovel stood an adorable five year-old girl. With giant black eyes she looked out shyly from behind a half open door to see what the soldiers were doing outside. A photographer noticed her and walked over to get a close up, but the girl darted indoors. He asked through an interpreter if the girl would come out for a picture, which she eventually did. He offered to show her the picture, but she shook her head. "What do you want?" the photographer asked through the interpreter. The girl immediately brought...
...chaos. As one of her charges misplaced words, the other found them for the first time. "They skirt language in opposite directions," she writes. "Daddy mixes fragments of words together to make new ones. Ava, speaking in almost-words, a sloppy protospeech, dances at language's doorway." Cohen's amazing reserve of humor and honesty in the face of adversity--which includes occasional passes from her dad--recall such classics of domestic perseverance as Anne Lamott's Operating Instructions...