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...interpreter for what seemed like six hours but was probably only 20 minutes. We stared at the dark windows of the shop. We stared at the cell phone. We stared at one another. What was this, Panmunjom? Finally, the interpreter called Kim: Drive down the alley and wait. We drove down the alley and waited. Nothing...
...Breakfast tomorrow? No. Send you pictures? Please, no. The van stopped at a red light. Somebody opened the door. She kissed Rae on the head, stroked her hair one last time, stepped out, finally let go of her hand and closed the door. The light turned green. We drove off and watched her shrink away from us, dropped off on the corner of Nowhere and Forever...
...Yale University when some Orthodox students sued to avoid living in co-ed dorms; the dismay of the alumni of a secular Jewish summer camp in New York State upon discovering that their alma mater had been supplanted by the ultra-Orthodox community of Monsey; and the pressures that drove a troubled Orthodox gas-station cashier in Jacksonville, Fla., to plant a bomb (nonoperative, he claims from prison) in a Conservative synagogue attended by members of his own family...
North of Boise a few days ago, I drove through high mountain desert - bald, sere, dun country with the look of the Middle East about it. The sky glared nearly white, hazed but cloudless, and the air was a breath of blast furnace, the temperature at 104 F. Military trucks passed, carrying more firefighters north to the Burgdorf fire...
Kishline wasn't. Last March, two months after she left the program she founded saying that it wasn't working for her, she drove the wrong way on a Washington State highway and smashed her pickup truck into a two-door Dodge, killing a man and his 12-year-old daughter. State troopers found Kishline unconscious, with a half-empty bottle of vodka by her side. Her blood-alcohol level was 0.26, more than three times the legal limit...