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...becomes, in this telling, an exploration of personality. Here we have Victor Abakumov, Stalin's head of secret police: "Abakumov ... was another colorful, swaggering torturer, amoral condottiere and 'zoological careerist' who possessed all Beria's sadism but less of his intelligence. Abakumov unrolled a bloodstained carpet on his office floor before embarking on the torture of his victims in order not to stain his expensive Persian rugs...
Though he has now run the show solo for 12 years, it probably looks exactly like it did during the Carter Administration. Under the harsh glow of fluorescent lights, throw-backs like an old-school beer price guide and a retro Coca-Cola refrigerator scatter the floor. Newspaper clippings yellowed with age and old photos line the wall behind the counter...
...home is a feeling, an impression, it is a transitory one. This fall I was a floater again, living in a Currier third-floor single. I had loose connections with some of the guys on my floor and one strong friendship. I was hopeful, though I knew that nothing is more difficult than infiltrating a group of friends. There are house rules, longstanding jokes first cracked at 4 a.m. in a Canaday hallway, hookup histories. After a couple of weeks, I felt like Jack Bauer in 24, learning to blend in and snoop around for clues—that girl...
Then, just like that, it happened. The Red Sox played the Yankees, Game 7, Yankee Stadium. On a whim, we took my car, three third floor guys and I, and the result was a man-date for the ages, an epic moment in the lives of four young men in love with baseball. We yelled until our lungs hurt, celebrated in the house Ruth built, even took a Yankee Stadium seat with...
...president. Hours upon hours have been spent here on Tuchman 3rd watching Scrubs episodes, figuring out how to keep Beirut stats, listening in silence to Jeff Buckley’s version of “Hallelujah,” and welcoming new kids to what now feels like my floor. Slowly but surely, I have stopped feeling like the outsider. And now, I can only say thank you to my friends for giving this transfer a chance...