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...admits to holes in her memory--"that mysterious dead-head space around the marriage's unraveling"--which leaves the reader impotently grasping at Warren's ghost. Her cadence can sometimes slip into Yoda's rhythms ("fitful, this rest is"). But the overall impression is of a sorrowful narrative poem as humble and funny as it is beautiful. Karr is an "inveterate check grabber," she tells us, out of "the poor girl's need to prove solvency." Perhaps a similar need drives her generosity on the page. Certainly her readers, once again, are the lucky beneficiaries...
That plot supposedly gelled with Headley's contributions. By late 2007, he had allegedly made three sets of "photographs, videos and oral descriptions" of targets in Mumbai, providing enough information to set the rest of the plan in motion. A native of Mumbai, Ansari, investigators said, returned from his LeT training in November 2007, found an apartment and was told by his LeT handlers to get a van driver's license. Ansari then allegedly scoped out more targets in Mumbai: a long list of prominent buildings from the U.S. consulate to the state legislature building. According to the official dossier...
...that's how he sleeps at home," she said. "Not in a hole, but when he sleeps on the couch, he's got his arms crossed across his chest and his head tilted to the side like he is here." Above, we have a snapshot of Guttenfelder getting some rest between his assignments in Afghanistan...
...were I would say [Richter’s] fault, but I think that all six guys could’ve done some things differently,” Donato said. “At that point, we needed a change, and sometimes you do that just as much for the rest of the guys as to change the pace of it a little bit. [Junior] Ryan [Carroll] came in and played very well and gave us a chance to come back...
Backup netminder Carroll took over for Richter midway through the second and made 17 saves in 36 minutes to shut out the Eagles’ offense for the rest of the match...