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...guitarist Hare, who in 1960 did indeed let life (or rather death) imitate art by murdering his baby. In the uniquely free-form Sun atmosphere, Sam helped performers express their tangled visions; they would come in with no songs or arrangements prepared but just noodle and canoodle until inspiration struck. Of course, he also should earn a week's detention for dropping the black acts when Presley showed him he could make money with white ones. But, hey, that's show business...
...first conversation that wandered this path struck me as somewhat insulting. But two or three identical conversations later, and having discovered that some congressional interns must give visiting constituents tours of the Capitol, I’ve become slightly more understanding of the assumption, but only slightly...
...boogers and sticks.” He was referring to Asian food. I found Washington to be much further south than I imagined—you have the native Virginia residents, plus all the people who work for Congressmen from southern states. They mostly struck me as very similar to my uncle. They like being polite, but they like talking about how polite they are even more, and how angry their mother would be if she found out they failed to do something like give up their seat for a very attractive girl on the bus, as if this surefire...
...lives all but impossible. Ghani Ahmed, a driver, lives in a canvas tent but he's already purchased new books for his children to replace the ones torched in March because he wants them to become educated professionals. But his kids aren't in school: their names were struck off the rolls after they missed several months of classes. "They knew the children were in camps but they don't want them back," says Ahmed. Then he laughs wearily and says caustically, "I am going to send them to a madrasah instead. They may as well become Islamic clerics." These...
Teaching at Summerbridge has been a slap in the face (picture it from an 11-year-old with a chalk-filled eraser in his hand). I’m struck daily by the difficulties of teaching, of disciplining students, of being white in a mostly minority group. But seeing what school is like with girls and boys in the same classroom makes me glad that I didn’t experience it until college...