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...book this summer. Thanks to the train ride, of course.Commuting has a unique culture; a strange, exclusive social order open only to those who live inconveniently far away from their workplace, with a euphemistic jargon of its own. For instance, “commuter shoes” are the flip-flops you take off in the elevator before jamming your feet into heels, “listening to music” is “the only way to drown out the noise of the screaming family of four”, and “this is my half...
...kids scuffed their elbows. The best parks give you the impression that layers of urban and suburban memory have been compressed into rolling seabeds. The whole place is like a collective unconscious forged in concrete. All so that some 12-year-old can use it to do a kick flip...
...weary-looking woman in a black track suit and pink flip-flops said she had made the decision to leave Lebanon early that morning, as Israeli bombers returned to strike her area of Baalbeck. Her fiance was still in Beirut. "I just couldn't handle it anymore. I had to get out." She left behind nearly all her possessions, but managed bring along her wedding dress. "Sometime, we will have the wedding," she said firmly. "If we're both still alive...
...everyone.Take, for example, one-year-old Hassan. Admitted a week ago for malnutrition, pneumonia, and anemia, he is now naked, pale, and wide eyed; his frail ribcage is clearly visible through almost translucent skin. I hold his hands to the blood- and urine-stained mattress as a nurse in flip-flops sticks him repeatedly with a needle, trying to transfuse a unit of expired blood.A fly lands on his eyeball and he doesn’t blink. The intravenous line slips out of his forearm and sprays blood all over the floor. The nurse throws her hands...
...MSNBC, that Lieberman was not taking the genial, low-voltage approach of his debate in 2000 against Dick Cheney, his opponent in the Vice Presidential race. Lieberman attacked Lamont nonstop, calling him a "one-issue" candidate who was only focused on opposing the Iraq war, charging that Lamont had flip-flopped on whether the U.S. should withdraw troops from Iraq, and saying he has so little political experience that Connecticut voters had to ask "who is Ned Lamont?" He was dismissive of Lamont, shaking his head at some of his answers and frequently interrupting him to throw him off guard...