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...about eight miles south of downtown Columbus, Ohio. It was loud enough to make him hit the brakes. Then came the explosion--"right beside me," Cable says. "I immediately got off the highway and got out of the car." Shaken, the retired corrections officer saw the driver's-side window of his minivan was splintered and the roof had a hole "the size of a 50˘ piece." A policeman stopped to help, but Cable, 53, says he could not convince him that the shard on the floorboard had come from a bullet, and the officer went...
...them that he's fleeing war. "There's work for me in Europe," he says instead. He packs a small knapsack with a single change of clothes, a black satchel for his money and a few photos. As he boards the bus on Jan. 26, he looks out the window at the small group of friends and relatives who have come to wish him luck. "I registered that moment like a photograph," he recalls. Abdi Salan spends the first five days of his journey heading northwest by bus to the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. A Somali friend...
...transitory friendship with her newest film, Lost in Translation. Hollywood star Bob Harris (Bill Murray) has been shipped off to Japan to hawk Suntory whiskey to the natives. There he encounters Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), the beautiful wife of a photographer who spends much of her day staring out her window in hopes of somehow finding herself within the city’s skyline. The pair discover Tokyo culture and a profundity in their friendship that is lacking in their respective marriages. Johansson perfects the prolonged sulk, while Murray delivers his best performance yet, donning the hats of weary voyager, droll...
...took cordless phones from people’s rooms, we put the antennas pointed out the window, and then we handed out the phones in the courtyard,” he explains...
...parking lot. I’ve gotten the goods. The minute hand of my watch is approaching 8:30 a.m. and I’m ready to high-tail it back to Harvard—but my getaway driver’s fallen asleep. I tap on the window and her freckled face comes to life with dazed alarm. She unlocks the door and I jump into the passenger’s seat. “Go!” I shout and we screech out onto the road...