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Usually they are based around an attitude. Years ago, a friend of mine was flying to L.A., and his girlfriend hadn't flown much. I remember her saying, "I was so excited. I was trying to figure out what I was going to wear on the plane, and I changed my outfit three times." I was 26, and I found that being that excited about something that was so commonplace was kind of engaging. That kind of spirit becomes Ed Grimley [on Saturday Night Live]. If the phone rang, before he answered it, he'd turn to the camera...
...hurt when two bombs went off at a soccer field in the Shi'ite district of Amil. Al-Shaheen, our bureau manager, has three children going stir-crazy at home. "They feel imprisoned," he says. "For entertainment, they get on my wife's nerves during the day and on mine at night...
...make a point. He speaks in a circular way, taking you on a fact-filled detour and then back to the main point. Once when I was interviewing him, he turned to his secretary and said, "She is from Galicia, but from a very different background from mine." He then started telling the story of Galicia--the Spanish region from which his father came--and ended by telling us about his family and how he became a revolutionary...
...lucky enough to have a stipend to pay for train passes, and I’m lucky enough to not have any pressing responsibilities outside of my job. On the other hand, the youth I work with are enmeshed in a Catch-22 of their own, much graver than mine. They need jobs in order to support themselves and stay afloat in communities where adult unemployment rates reach as high as 95 percent. Businesses, however, refuse to open stores in these poor, dangerous neighborhoods, and so teens must commute in order to join the workforce. Unfortunately, when you also...
This realization was only strengthened by a long-overdue project of mine: typing out my journals from elementary school. Those from third and fourth grade are full of exploits of all kinds, from tramping through the water of half-melted streams to shopping at the local mall...