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...within the 10-mile-wide, U.S.-controlled Green Zone. Seek out some journalists, Senator Jack Reed told him, and ask them to give you an off-the-record assessment of what life there is really like. As Obama later wrote in his book The Audacity of Hope, that session turned out to be a valuable reality check, a reminder of "just how quixotic our efforts in Iraq still seemed - how, with all the American blood, treasure and the best of intentions, the house we were building might be resting on quicksand...
...Yorkers make no secret of their contempt for the land that lies beyond the Hudson and East Rivers, the city welcomed me with open arms. As I warily presented my immigration documents and student visa to the burly U.S Immigrations and Customs officer, I braced myself for a probing session of questioning, laced with distrust. There were brief words uttered, but to me they were distinctly heartwarming nonetheless: “Welcome back...
...August 1990, I walked into Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole's office. Dressed in slacks, wearing her glasses, Dole was hard at work on a hot Sunday afternoon. The building was quiet--in fact, the whole city was quiet since Congress was not in session. I told her I was thinking about leaving her department...
Stunned, I wanted to study the data. (At the close of the meeting, FAA officials collected all of the documents they'd shown us at the session.) Where had the figures come from, how had they been interpreted and substantiated, and what were the airlines planning to do about it? More important, what did the FAA plan to do to prevent all these crashes...
...taking the swab," says Carmen Davila, community education director at CitiWide Harm Reduction, a needle-exchange facility in the Bronx where about 80% of patients are HIV-positive. "You also need to rub someone's back and talk to them. When I do testing, it's like a therapy session." Davila and others at CitiWide worry the initiative's approach ignores important parts of the treatment process - including pre- and post-test counseling - and reduces the delicate, often traumatic process of coping with a diagnosis to the emotional equivalent of a visit to the DMV. Having spent years educating...