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...lonely road in Western Australia, his business colleague driving. A car came over a rise with its lights on high beam. Half-blinded, my father's colleague instinctively pulled off the road. He hit a parked trailer, almost sheering the car in half. My father died; the driver was unhurt. I don't know if the high-beamer even stopped...
...sisters, aged six and two at the time, while she went out to work. We managed. But what a waste. A man who had been a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, surviving the horrors of the fighting on Guadalcanal, slaughtered because some twit driver forgot his dimmer switch. Over the half-century since that night, I've wondered what it might have been like to pronounce the word Dad rather than just write...
...Then a young truck driver, stupefyingly shy until he stood before a microphone, walked in to make a record for his mother. A few visits later, abetted by guitarist Scotty Moore, bass player Bill Black and Phillips at a primitive console, Elvis Presley fooled around until he came up with a variation on the Arthur Crudup song "That's All Right." It was, too. "That's different," Phillips legendarily said. "That's a pop song now, just 'bout." What it was, just 'bout, was rock 'n roll - a mighty mutant of pop, blues and country, born July 5, 1954, right...
...half-ton bomb from going off in a high-security area that includes Karzai's offices, the American embassy and the headquarters of United Nations peacekeepers. The bomber's car collided with another vehicle and then aroused suspicions by immediately speeding away. Police chased it and caught the driver but not his passenger...
...near a school, and locals quickly blamed it on avenging Muslims. In Pandarwada, the Muslims are worried about the state elections. If Modi's side wins, they say, none of their attackers will be punished. Which makes going back to their old lives all but impossible. Ghani Ahmed, a driver, lives in a canvas tent but he's already purchased new books for his children to replace the ones torched in March because he wants them to become educated professionals. But his kids aren't in school: their names were struck off the rolls after they missed several months...