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...summers, I was a pawn in this self-perpetuating system. Like any shady organization, this syndicate of service-elevator operators and bellhops thrives on family connections, and mine ran straight through the heart of my alma mater, Regis High School...
Further humanizing were the encouraging words of wisdom given by the crew in charge. The friend of mine who later encouraged me to go, had earlier encouraged everyone around. “No, really, your hair looks fine,” she chirped agreeably. “There’s nothing to worry about; it’s real laid-back...
...There is no such thing as a smart, safe or dumb mine. Would you send your children out to play in a soccer field full of American smart mines?" JERRY WHITE, director of Landmine Survivors Network, on the Bush Administration's plans to phase out traditional land mines by 2010 but leave the door open for the use of "smart" mines, which can be programmed to SELF-DESTRUCT...
...some of the strategy of the game to get under the skin of the other team’s best players. Sometimes that carries over...That’s probably not going through his mind right now, and I know it’s not going through mine. But if tensions do rise, we know that’s part of the game...
...list of Anti-Chrises, the human particles I avoid completely, lest we annihilate each other in a weird anthropomorphic physics catastrophe.) Once you find your way on to my lists, it’s really hard to get off. What scares me is that everyone has lists like mine. How do I know that all those people in my sections aren’t looking at me for 10 seconds and then mentally declaring, “Wanker!” I want to say, “No, man, you got me all wrong. Really...