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...could hardly believe what was happening to him. One of the most successful and hard-working ethnic-Albanian officers in the Macedonian air force, earlier this month he suddenly found himself handcuffed to a table in a dingy police station with his T-shirt looped over his head to hide the identities of his interrogators. The balding, soft -spoken native of the capital, Skopje, was being grilled by police and later by his own comrades about an alleged (and, Bela says, non- existent) connection with the ethnic-Albanian rebels fighting in the hills overlooking the city...
...something loving but not sappy, written in clear bold letters, not that terrible flowery script. I wanted something she could read and display with some pride. I did not want to send her a card that would make her blush and which she would probably feel the need to hide somewhere. Unfortunately, thirty minutes into my lunch hour, that's pretty much all I'd found. Hello? Doesn't anyone out there in greeting card land have literate grandmothers anymore...
...time demand an especially crafty and determined breed of activist, because our enemies refuse to dress the part. Math illiteracy plagues black kids without wearing a hood or burning a cross. Urban sprawl doesn't need a gun to rob a community's quality of life. And hunger can hide beneath a designer T shirt...
Sometimes the smugglers have safe houses on the U.S. side where the immigrants can hide while awaiting transport north. Others must walk much farther. For Gonzales and his daughter, it was 10 p.m. before they crossed the border, and they had only begun their journey. Gonzales fell and twisted his knee in the dark and had trouble keeping up. With no map and no idea of the area, he was at the mercy of the two guides accompanying his group. After sleeping in the desert, they continued walking the following day and finally arrived at Highway 90, favored by smugglers...
...start a fight. I was failing out of school, drinking every day, ditching classes. I stole a lot from my parents, I couldn't hold down jobs. I was big into either cutting myself or drinking a lot with aspirin, or taking a lot of poisons. I managed to hide those suicide attempts from my parents. When I'd wake up in the morning, I couldn't look at myself in the mirror...