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...soldier. He doesn't love Saddam Hussein, and he was happy in April when U.S. Marines rolled through his Baghdad neighborhood on their way to liberate the capital. But he turned against the Americans the night he saw his brother Hussein, 27, take two bullets in the neck. At 10:30 p.m. on Nov. 17, Karam says, he and three of his brothers were driving to a neighborhood where the pumps were working in order to get water for their home. Hussein, in the passenger seat, talked excitedly about having his new suit tailored for his upcoming wedding. That...
...cause can not forget." Amy suffered for Daisy's traumas. In the short essay Confessions, the most harrowing piece in the collection, Amy recalls a violent standoff with her mother over her first real boyfriend, a confrontation that ended with Daisy holding a meat cleaver against her daughter's neck. Years later, when Alzheimer's has almost obliterated Daisy's memory, Amy asks her mother about the incident. Daisy laughs and dismisses it. Amy was always a good daughter, she says, and they never fought. Never. Writes Tan: "How wonderful to hear her say what was never true...
...while, Matthews rocks back and forth in his chair. He cranes his neck. His eyes go left to right. All the while Matthews looks ready...
...grandfather never met Mohandas Gandhi, but he did the next best thing. A photograph taken in the 1950s, which hung in a room in his mansion, showed him bashfully stepping forward to place a garland around the neck of Jawaharlal Nehru, the man Gandhi chose to lead India after independence from Britain. If Gandhi is India's founding saint, for those of my grandfather's generation, Nehru, their first Prime Minister, was only a shade removed. They called him the "architect of the nation" and believed he would heal India's divisions and transform their impoverished country into a proud...
...We’re not going to The Game. We’re tailgating. Come on. Come ON,” said Peter D. Stemp ’04, who was wearing purple, silver and green Mardi Gras beads around his neck and a beer-soaked shirt...