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...Chilly Night in Isfahan, Iran, 1971 As my parents unload the bags from the taxi, they tell me to sit in the hotel lobby and watch over my 2-year-old brother. I don't, not closely enough, and he waddles into the street, where he is knocked down by a truck. He's fine, if stunned. My parents assure the police that any fault lies not with the truck driver but with them, for leaving a toddler with a 5-year-old. It doesn't matter. The driver is still hauled off to prison. He is held because...
...they both have to fly. There is also a team on a chase helicopter, which provides cover for the medevacs in case they are fired on. Members of the first-up team are on for 24 hours and take any call that comes in during that spell. They basically sit around and wait for calls, but in that time, they cannot shower or go to the cafeteria; they have to be ready to run to the chopper on a moment's notice...
...from the model politician. In addition to his past political eccentricities, his recent threat to help Republicans block key parts of the federal health-care legislation has angered more than a few people, including the notorious left-wing documentary director Michael Moore. Never one to sit on the sidelines when there’s a statement to be made, Moore has called upon his loyal fans to boycott all Connecticut businesses and institutions until Senator Lieberman comes to his (theoretical) senses. Moore’s plan is not only ill-conceived but also harmful, and harmful to the wrong people...
...bedrooms to basement dance floors where water pipes slither overhead. Rubin has already reserved my ticket for Pachanga, the greatest dance party of the year—a student newspaper editorial calls it “moderated madness” and likens it to tribal rituals. But often we sit in his below-ground room and turn the lights off, the bass up loud: me sitting on the couch, Rubin on piano, Dave drumming with something or another, me talking about how they’re going to make it big someday, bigger even than NBA stardom. Or else we?...
With these acts of legislative sabotage, Republicans tapped into a deep truth about the American people: they hate political squabbling, and they take out their anger on whoever is in charge. So when the Gingrich Republicans carried out a virtual sit-down strike during Clinton's first two years, the public mood turned nasty. By 1994, trust in government was at an all-time low, which suited the Republicans fine, since their major line of attack against Clinton's health care plan was that it would empower government. Clintoncare collapsed, Democrats lost Congress, and Republicans learned the secrets of vicious...