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...they already know one another's stories. So when Mona Rahman, 24, tells the other five people at a New York City dinner table about how her superstrict parents never let her sleep over at friends' houses, there are chuckles of recognition. There are equally empathetic, if more sober, nods when Grace Chang Lucarelli, 32, speaking in a soft Texan drawl, recalls "people making fun of me" because she was one of the few Asian Americans in her town. The people around the table grew up in rural Texas, suburban New Jersey, upstate New York, small-town Virginia...
...audience soon after Sept. 11, he shares the work of Agha Shahid Ali, a Kashmiri poet who has lived with civil war and terror all his life. Bringing a young republic a larger sense of history, and so of suffering, is not the least of the achievements of this sober and highly dignified book...
...campaigns--in his last two elections, he accepted no contributions--and in 1975 instituted Congress's monthly Golden Fleece awards to highlight wasteful spending by the government. Among the winners: an alcohol-abuse agency's $102,000 tab to determine whether drunk fish were more aggressive than sober ones; and a law-enforcement group's $27,000 study to find out why inmates try to escape from prison...
...Pigpen’s appearance; ponder why they keep picking on the kid that can’t afford soap. 6. Whenever you feel Charles Schultz gets too preachy in the script. 7. Every time a non-white character comes on screen. Prepare to end the night sober. 8. Reinforce your own crippling insecurity by taking a shot every time Linus retreats to his blanket. 9. Every time you’re confused as to why one of the most-merchandised holiday specials of the last 50 years keeps criticizing the commercialization of Christmas. After fourteenth such shot, throw bottle...
...calmly picked up a lemonade bottle and hurled it across the room towards Johnson and Dolan. Bits of broken glass showered the cowering couple. “No more lies,” said Fee. “Practice tomorrow. 6 a.m. See you all there—sober,” he said, nodding towards Lowrey. WORKIN' HARD, WORKIN' OUT 2 weeks, 3 days, 5 hours...