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...ride the Metro to work in Washington, D.C. These are not incompatible facts. You have read about people who toiled in cubicles for years, suffered long commutes, and emerged from the chrysalis of public transportation into the butterfly fulfillment of authordom, having penned some Great American Novel during the hellish trips. Since during the course of your short life you have had no success following the diligent examples of others, of course this is the time...
That nearly all their leads should be taking investigators toward Condit's innermost life--to the point where the inside of his mouth was swabbed for his DNA--must be a peculiarly hellish torture for a man obsessed with guarding his secrets. The Hill newspaper quoted police sources as saying Condit had insisted that Levy not carry any identification when they were together--a detail that, if true, could have a connection to the fact that items such as credit cards, her driver's license and other personal articles were left behind in her apartment when she vanished. Then again...
...That nearly all their leads should be taking investigators toward Condit's innermost life - to the point where the inside of his mouth was swabbed for his DNA - must be a peculiarly hellish torture for a man obsessed with guarding his secrets. The Hill newspaper quoted police sources as saying Condit had insisted that Levy not carry any identification when they were together - a detail that, if true, could have a connection to the fact that items such as credit cards, her driver's license and other personal articles were left behind in her apartment when she vanished. Then again...
...Thompson says Ashcroft's team was especially impressed by Mueller's extraordinary 1995 decision to abandon a lucrative private practice to take obscure murder cases in DC's hellish Superior Court. "He's not a person who's all that concerned about his ego," says Thompson. "He doesn't need to have a high-profile position to determine his self-worth...
...think, the U.S. that finds letting go of the glorious memory of World War II most difficult. The U.S. lost hundreds of thousands of men in the fighting, but its folk memory of the horror is less hellish than that of other nations. Alone among the combatants, America's heartland was untouched. So no death camps, no Barbarossa. No Hiroshima, Dresden or Coventry. No postwar period searching for scraps of food and shelter, as the Germans and Japanese had to; no dark years of rationed austerity, like most of Western Europe suffered. The rest of the world, in other words...