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They killed the five other people they were holding one by one. The people were shouting and crying. I was sitting a few yards away, tied up back to back with my friend. There were about seven soldiers doing the killing. The others were searching the houses. I thought they were going to kill...
When they had finished killing the other five, they started arguing. Some wanted to kill us, but others said we should carry rice for them. My friend was a farmer, and I told them I was too. I said that because at that time, the rebels were searching for teachers and police. Then someone came up and said he knew me, although I didn't know him. I thought he might save me, but he turned out to be the one who destroyed me. He said, "I know you. You're a teacher, and you have a friend...
...that's exactly what makes him take that leap: that sense of overcoming his inhibitions and winning what he calls the gravity game. "Football is for pansies," says McGuire. "What do you need all those pads for? This sport [BASE jumping] is pushing all the limits. I have a friend who calls it suicide with a kick...
When a BASE jumper dies, other BASE jumpers say he has "gone in," as in gone into the ground or gone into a wall. "I'm sick of people going in," says Fillipino. "In the past year, a friend went in on a skydive, another drowned as a result of a BASE jump, another friend went in on a jump, another died in a skydiving-plane crash. You can't escape death, but you don't want to flirt with it either." It may be the need to flirt with death, or at least take extreme chances, that...
...suppose some of the sting is taken out of it if your own kid is the one who has suddenly become unspeakably wealthy. Even then, there must be something disorienting about having to answer, when an old friend asks how little Ethan is getting along in his first job, "Well, he doesn't tell us much--you know how boys that age are--but the last issue of Forbes said he's worth $2 billion...