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...called it a night. I thought I knew what the officer would say—my elementary school sat right next to the 13th Precinct and our classrooms had been visited several times by local cops on community service missions—but I asked just for the hell of it. “What are you supposed to do in a situation like this? Just give them what they want...
...much as that spring afternoon on the football field five years ago. The problem now, as then, was not motive: there were enough good intentions on the Weeks Footbridge and on my high school’s Leo Shields Football Field to cover the road from here to Hell in asphalt several times over. The problem was that we were window-dressing. The problem was the vague sense of self-satisfaction that hovered over us on the football field and on the bridge. There is a sort of grief that is too deep, and there are problems that...
...position. "They say, 'Bruce, I'm a fan! But I'm not coming,'" he says. Far more have attacked his right to have a political opinion at all. The mail, he says, has been rough, and even Nightline's Ted Koppel asked Springsteen on his show, "Who the hell is Bruce Springsteen to tell anybody how to vote...
...their friendship at work. "I was very respectful of his health situation," McAuliffe says. "However, I did not miss the opportunity to tell him how important it is to get him back on the trail." He said they spent about three hours together at the kitchen table, playing Oh Hell!, one of Clinton's favorite card games. "He beat me both games," McAuliffe says, "and he talked politics the whole time...
...COOLNESS UNDER FIRE" [SEPT. 20]: John Kerry's troubled campaign convinces me that the U.S. is a nation of gullible buffoons. Of course Bush has supporters who would follow him into the depths of hell (which they may indeed do), but to see people being easily swayed by an Administration that has so many failures is mind boggling. The future is clear: the Administration will continue barreling along, arrogantly pushing its failed special-interest agenda, while the sheep (the American public) are herded off the cliff...