Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today Meili lives with his wife Giuseppina and their two children in a cramped apartment in West Orange, N.J., courtesy of a Polish-born developer who escaped the Holocaust. "I am the first Swiss person in history to get political asylum," Meili tells his audience here, drawing laughter. (Congress passed special legislation last August granting the Meilis residency.) Other Jewish benefactors have provided furniture, English classes, driving lessons, two 10-year-old cars, the $31,000-a-year doorman job and synagogue schooling for his children, ages five and three. "The Meilis are among the righteous gentiles," says Toby Goldberger...
...days, I will celebrate my first Mother's Day without my mother. For the past 10 months, even thinking about this day has evoked pain and sadness in me. My past Mother's Days were always filled with laughter and love. Sunday brunch at our favorite restaurant was first on our packed schedule. An art museum, of course my mother's choice, was usually next on the list. Our schedule of Mother's Day activities was practically endless. It didn't matter what we did, as long as we were together...
...Once the laughter stops, members attempt to fit the table back together. After a few minutes they succeed, but the table appears wobbly and slightly tilted...
...This can't be right," says Phillip Johnson "01. He is met with more laughter...
Brother Bill is standing with the gang members on their usual gathering spot outside a building in Cabrini-Green, the place where drug users looking for marijuana, crack cocaine or heroin can always find it. The air is frigid but charged with the warm sound of horseplay and laughter...