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...wore jeans and was smoking a cigarette. The first person he shot was Jeff Laster, a seminarian working as a custodian who asked him to put it out. Next was Sydney Browning, the children's choir director, resting on a sofa in the foyer, followed by a young man who had been selling Christian CDs. In the sanctuary, the shooter found a roomful of adolescents, happily celebrating that morning's observance of See You at the Pole, an annual national event in which Christian teens gather around their school flagpoles before classes to pray. A band called Forty Days...
...this activity goes to the author's three sons, who some years ago signed with a licensing agent to control the use of the Hemingway name. The latest venture to win the sons' approval is the Ernest Hemingway Collection from the Thomasville furniture company. Among the offerings: the Pamplona Sofa and the Kilimanjaro...
...door, hung a left and cruised down the hall about 50 ft. to Stein's office, where it made another left and entered. A few seconds later a short, high-pitched scream (not robotic) indicated that Cye had found its mark. Upon inspection, I saw Stein standing on his sofa. "I fear it," he said, pointing at the orange robot. After Cye mastered the Steinway ("learning" the placement of walls and natural barriers, such as piles of discarded newspapers), I could automatically recall it to my office. From then on, it was a simple task to dispatch Cye whenever necessary...
Betty Friedan, on the other hand, proved a formidable presence. Staff writer Nadya Labi traveled to Friedan's Washington apartment to work with the feminist icon on the brief reminiscence of the women's movement that accompanies our Emmeline Pankhurst story. "I perched cautiously on the sofa," recalls Labi, "and quickly stood when Ms. Friedan entered the room. Her pose was authoritative, and her manner direct." Especially when she expounded on sex and autonomy. Intoned Friedan: "As women move to greater rights, opportunities and control of their destinies, all the measures of sexual satisfaction increase...
...Serbian twilight, they took us to see Slobodan Milosevic in his presidential residence. He had reddish, piggy eyes set in a big round head. He wore a brush cut that looked like static electricity firing up from his pink skull. Milosevic settled complacently onto a sofa, with Wiesel on his right, and cocked one leg onto the cushion, showing an expanse of hairless, pale calf above his black sock...