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...grew up in inner-city L.A., you know.” But, he says, “My life was great…I had a great family. [The neighborhood] was pretty ghetto, I’ll be honest, but we lived well...
...remember that sensation of not knowing. Of recognizing the impossibility of grasping what’s really happening. Of time passing. Of unpredictability. It is the feeling that nothing that has come before can prepare you for the events ahead. That feeling strikes me as more honest somehow than the jubilance expected on a day like today...
...darks and whites I should have separated, the office hours I should have attended, the papers I should have started a few days earlier, and the arguments I should have conceded. There are the times I should have held my tongue, and the times when I should have been honest. Rather than look at my Harvard career as the sum of my mistakes, I can only pray that I have emerged a bit wiser, perhaps a bit less dignified, but certainly fortified with greater knowledge of my abilities and limitations. And to those who have witnessed these tumultuous years...
...this because they feel like they're lying," says Donna Parsons, a musician in Los Angeles who makes about $500 a month doing part-time mystery shopping and traveling. "The way I look at it, I'm helping workers do a better job and keeping honest people honest." In a recent "integrity shop"--a test of employee honesty--Parsons caught a bartender stealing cash...
...always completely honest with my cadets," Amerine says. "That's what I would want for myself." He manages to pack a war's worth of heresy against Army doctrine into a 50-min. class. He presses cadets to enunciate a meaningful difference between insurgent leader Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi and West Point icon and Revolutionary War hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Pole who was the foreign fighter of his era. What is a terrorist? Amerine asks. Someone who flies planes into buildings, says a cadet. The Japanese did basically that, says Amerine. Someone who kills civilians, says another...