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...long held strident political views. But he is also something of a model citizen. As a student, he once penned a note thanking a professor for a well-taught course. As an adult, he volunteered to teach arts and crafts to children in a Muslim community center in Portland. Tall and athletic, Ford is consistently described as calm and gentle and is admired for his linguistic abilities. Is this a man who would turn to violence against his country...
Turner addressed Wamba directly: “We bid you good night, our sweet, tall, proud, African prince...
...parked near the bank. These drivers sat here daily, dirtied by mud and sweat, eager to collect their fee of 2,500 Vietnamese Dong (roughly 17 cents). We bumped down dirt roads, ducking as tree branches swung at our heads, and were eventually dropped off in a field of tall grass. Somewhere past this field Ông Ngoai (Grandfather) was resting on the farm he cultivated as a young man—the same farm where my mother was born, the third of eight children. Suzanne doubted our relatives would remember how to get there. “William...
...them. She had to destroy the family’s ties to America as the new government searched homes looking for evidence of treachery and conspiracy. I traveled to Ông Ngoai’s farm with a subconscious hope he’d greet me in those tall grasses but I had to settle for a tomb and an old picture instead. The memories my mother has forgotten, the artifacts that have been destroyed, the people who have died—each represents a component of my family’s history that has disappeared and that...
...bind. As Montgomery County Police Chief, Moose wants desperately to identify the sniper who has terrorized the Washington D.C. suburbs for the past eight days, most recently killing a man at a Virginia service station. But this strong-willed, inveterate leader wants to do it his way - a tall order when you consider the masses of media, federal police and FBI agents swarming around each new crime scene - and second-guessing every move that's made. For his role as the unofficial spokesman for the sniper investigation, Charles Moose is our person of the week...