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...told me that the flight had been canceled due to mechanical problems, and I’d have to fly out early Sunday morning instead. So I had a free Saturday night, out of the blue! I jumped in a taxi and got home in time to join my girlfriend Rebecca for a long sunset walk along the Charles and around Harvard Square...
Schonberger: My game plan revolves around the ancient tactic of “striking while the iron’s hot.” With this in mind, I plan to grow a beard (impossible) and find a girlfriend (unlikely). I realize a great tan can only carry me so far into the year, so I have purchased a Gamecube as a fallback...
Sometimes my task was to seek the families of murdered men, a wrinkled police brief and a taped-over map to guide me. On one of my better days I found the dead man’s girlfriend standing at the site of the night’s fatal gunshots, her hands on her hips, scrutinizing the spot where the body had been found, half on sidewalk, half on grass. The scene had been swept clean of everything except an empty bag of Fritos...
Beyond the sidewalk, the mother sat inside her home, the lights off and the windows shaded, surrounded by sisters and aunties and photos. She had little cash and many duties; she made plans to take in the babies her boy had sired and the girlfriend he had left behind. I fell in love with women like her, women with solid waists and turbaned heads, hands you could hold onto...
...unloving couple, have cast a shadow over his childhood, and the fall of the Twin Towers comes shortly after his parents’ death in a fiery blaze. Moreover, the Twin Towers collapse as Mike is losing the two pillars of his own life: his brother Lyle and his girlfriend Jane. It seems that McDonell is likening the events of 9/11 to Mike’s travails, which – though also tragic – are absolutely incomparable to the terrorist attacks...