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Ultimately, the Regis kids ended up spelling out “SORRY” in letters and begged Tolbert to look up at them again. Meanwhile, the guys to our left had somehow gotten kicked out, and the guys behind us were chanting “TOLBERT FARTED.” It was everything I had dreamed...
Tsurumi said that the younger Bush boasted that his father’s political string-pulling had gotten him to the top of the waiting list for the Texas National Guard instead of serving in Vietnam. When other students were frantically scrambling for summer jobs, Tsurumi said, Bush explained that he was planning instead for a visit to his father in Beijing, where the senior Bush was serving at the time as the special U.S. envoy to China...
...Most people have not gotten it right yet," Kerry told TIME when asked about his formative years. "They seem overly focused on [my] being dropped off at boarding school. I keep reading 'rootless.' I could not disagree more. I have spectacular roots, a spectacular sense of family and place." It's true that many stories about Kerry's early years focus on their nomadic quality, maybe because he had gone to seven schools on two continents by the time he was in ninth grade. And as for an acute sense of family, Kerry did not know the whole story...
...call me ibn al-kilab (son of a dog) and men from Hezbollah tell my friend that all Americans should have their necks broken. Hope in the eye of the camera surrenders to a looming shadow of hate once I stop recording. And I haven’t even gotten the worst of it. My friend Mohamad and I both agree that the people we have been interviewing are censoring themselves because I am behind the camera...
...camps are a tinderbox of cramped quarters and unclean water. The world, says Aylward, is like a forest, and one polio case can touch off a wildfire that may take years to put out. "We have gone several seasons without [a forest fire]," he says, "and the brush has gotten dryer and dryer. One spark, and it could explode anywhere...