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...class dinner a while ago and was looking around and thought I was at my parents’ reunion,” he says. “25 years can take its toll on you. People should go into my profession. You never have to grow...
...oddly comforting. It speaks of murderers who can move on, who can see beyond conflict and chaos to a future of peace and picnics. A tranquil Eden is never going to be the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Kashmir. And with an average death toll of 13 people a day, it'll be difficult to find room to mention the scenery in my dispatches. But in these fearsome days of violence, terror and nuclear brinkmanship, I take some solace from the notion that when a Kashmiri thinks of peace and beauty, he thinks of home...
...video, which opened with a clip of him singing “I’m a toll-man” to the tune of the Blues Brothers’ “Soul Man,” focused on a Back To the Future theme, using clips from the 1985 sci-fi thriller to “travel” through the course of his life, from his early days as a child in Brighton housing projects to his career in the state senate...
...destruction of suicide bombings in Israel. Workers at Ground Zero paused to honor the victims of Sept. 11 every time remains were removed from the rubble and to the firefighters who worked around the clock unearthing their own, it didn’t matter that the official death toll only shrunk as time went on. In Israel there wasn’t even time to pause to honor the dead, as each day brought with it a new collection of ferocious headlines. In the U.S. we could be thankful that for us, at least, terror was still just an event...
Writing a thesis had taken a physical toll on Shames—a week later, she fell ill and spent a week in the hospital recovering from mono and strep throat...