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...autistic brother Noah and I once played together. He was two, and I was a year older. We wrestled, and I tickled him. He responded in a high-pitched giggle, halfway between a baby's gurgle and a child's laughter. I can't remember ever playing with him again. Noah stayed forever a baby, profoundly retarded, always dependent, never very communicative. And my role changed, much too early, from playmate to steward. There was barely any sibling rivalry. There were no battles to be fought. He would always be the center of attention...
...whose only offense was that he belonged to the ruling Nepali Congress Party, was beyond speech. Eventually his torturers?a crowd of 60 girls and boys in Maoist uniforms and rebel-red bandannas?grew tired. Selecting a sharpened kukri (a small machete), one of them stepped forward and sliced halfway through Jnawali's neck in a single blow. And that's how his wife and son found him, cut to pieces, head partly severed, when they dared to venture out into the yard the next morning. No one knew whether he had died of shock or bled to death...
...halfway point of the 2,000-meter course, the Crimson had taken a four-seat lead and just kept moving...
Their songs are halfway between napkin-scribblings and classics, running the gauntlet between stodgy remakes and retro-cool from rock’s heyday. On the manic “White Hands,” lead by a frantic bass, Hayes challenged with true rock and roll sneer: “Jesus, when you going to come back?/ Jesus, I dare you to come back.” The highlight of the evening was the swaggering single, “Spread Your Love” which built from its inflated Beatles conceit to a grinding, howling climax. Black leather...
...Cause you say that you only feel bitterness/ Would it kill you to show us a little sweetness?” The song is most impressive for its dynamics: Costello dryly lights into the unnamed woman over the nudge of the bass and the soft support of the drums. Halfway into the song however, everything explodes—cymbals crash as Costello screams, “But the flavour is tart, and the flavour is tart...