Word: escorting
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...fallen off and an uneasy normalcy has settled in. At Mitrovica's Serbian Orthodox church, for example, Father Svetislav Nojic, 64, continues to hold sparsely attended Sunday liturgies, though worshipers must travel under armed guard to get there from the Serb side of town. Nojic says he needs an escort just to take a walk in his tiny garden. Still, most days he ventures out to tend his congregation north of the Ibar, hunkered down in an armored personnel carrier. "I have been a priest for 47 years," he says. "I plan to stay here and die here...
Griffin volunteers his own time as well. Wednesdays he spends at the Children’s Hospital in Boston. “We work as an escort service. Not escorting nurses,” he says, almost automatically, without pausing in his narrative to see if anyone will give him an appreciative chuckle. Griffin’s job actually entails escorting patients from ultrasound rooms to hospital rooms and anywhere else they need to be. With the floppy white hair and stream of self-deprecating and ridiculous humor, Steve Griffin seems like he would be a comforting person...
...pauses as she notices a police car following beside the team bus. “I think we might be getting pulled over,” she says, “unless...oh, it’s a police escort.” For this prefrosh, who hopes to be on the Wheaties box one day and will don a good luck shin guard strap she’s had since childhood during the Olympics, it’s all about enjoying her 15 minutes of fame...
Parker will begin the Pudding festivities with a parade in her honor on Mass. Ave. at 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 7. Fourteen members of the all-male theatrical troupe, dressed flamboyantly in drag, will escort the actress along the parade route to the Pudding Theater on Holyoke Street where she will be treated to a preview of the new play...
...nation," he told Mirwali. "They want to tell the world what is here. They are working for you. If something happens to them, it will bring shame to us." Amazingly, Mirwali seemed moved. He nodded in agreement and passed out orders. A junior commander dashed off to ready our escort. "I think it will only cost you about $10 per soldier," the fixer advised with a smile...