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...first months on the job were a crash course in how the other half lives. Police shut down a methamphetamine lab a block from the school. Kids confided they slept under their beds to avoid bullets from drive-by shootings. So Douglas and her teachers and parents worked with police to clean things up. Prison inmates were bused in to sweep crack vials from the school playground. Parents cruised Southside armed with cell phones, ready to dial police at the first sign of trouble. Now when Douglas circles the neighborhood, kids bolt out of their homes as if she were...
...what I have chosen to study. After the screening of my film this semester, they understood that it wasn't a cheesy movie I had done "for fun," but the result of an entire year of writing, producing, directing and editing, involving a two-week period where I slept in Sever basement and pulled three all-nighters, one lasting 40 hours. And the end product of all my work resulted in a harsh five-minute critique from my department...
...much fun as you thought it’d be. You’d like to recapture some of the magic of your undergraduate days, but you’ve already got your masters degree and don’t need any more education. You haven’t slept past 11:30 AM in six years, and the last time you just dropped in on one of the people in your apartment building, your neighbor thought you were the super trying to collect the rent. And you’re not about to get drunk on cheap beer...
...child with huge brown eyes and a flashing smile. She ate whatever Marie prepared, whether it was a stew of pounded cassava leaves or a soup of ground peanuts; but like all children, she loved sweets, and would charm her mother into buying her cakes at the market. She slept in the same bed with her mother, always staying close. And when her little sister came along, she nicknamed her Bobo...
...middle-aged resident--who had slept in the makeshift city since its creation weeks ago and had even moved into a larger tent over the course of the sit-in--said he simply did not know where he was going...