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...Booker Prize, is striking for the maturity of its sensibility and suggests that Smith is, indeed, a talent to watch over the long haul. You are not simply entertained by the writer's versatility and brilliant characters; you really care about these people. When they are stubborn you want to slap some sense into them. When they do good you cheer. And when they behave thoughtlessly you tend to forgive, because you can't escape the nagging suspicion that you yourself might not have behaved any better. The characters are, after all, only human, and when writing a novel...
...city built by rumrunners and slave traders and pirates was never going to play by anyone's rules or plan for the future. So as Katrina, wicked and flirtatious, lingered in the Gulf with her eye on the town, many citizens decided they would stay, stubborn or stoic or too poor to have much choice. As for the ones packing up to go, disaster officials told them to take a look around before they left, because it might never look the same again...
...Orleans and the airport, the Voodo Child's crew evacuated more than 70 people. Their last rescue of the day had the pilot setting the helicopter down precariously on an overpass, the rotor blades whipping up the noxious smell of oil, sewage and corpses stewing in the city's stubborn flood waters. There the CH-53 received a group of blind people who had been brought to the helicopter by one of the rescue boats that were now coordinating more efficiently with the air rescue effort. Though they probably had more reason to be terrified, the blind seemed supremely calm...
...insists on telling that to Bush personally. She speaks without caveat. "I'm not afraid of anything since my son was killed," she says. But she has never been one to move quietly through life. Father Michael McFadden, a priest she once worked for, calls her "very defiant, very stubborn, very strong willed" when dealing with authority. When a soldier from the local base comes by to argue with her, she asks him to go for a walk. She puts her arm around him. Soon they are hugging. Her friends call her Attila the Honey...
...keep everything equal by standing up for the geeks. I'm not saying I never made fun of anyone, but I try to keep everything equal just like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did. I even want to be a middle school teacher because the kids are not yet stubborn like high school students, and a teacher can still teach them what's right and what's wrong...