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...same kid who woke up at 6 a. m. daily to watch ESPN SportsCenter so that I could see the clips of his towering shots...
...There is magic and loss on nearly every page. At one point in the novel, a man who has been struck by a machete and left for dead in a pile of corpses tells his story. "'I felt like my woman on our first night together,' he said. 'She woke up in the middle of the night and started screaming...this was her first night outside her mother's bed and she'd plain forgotten where she was... Waking up among the dead, I started screaming... And then I thought of my woman and our first night together...
When National Security Adviser Sandy Berger woke President Bill Clinton at 5:30 a.m. with the news, the Commander in Chief's first concern was for the victims, his second for the perpetrators. A few hours later, the President uttered a grim public warning to the terrorists: "We will use all the means at our disposal to bring those responsible to justice, no matter what or how long it takes." The U.S. has long believed that the only way to curtail terrorism is to exact justice by capturing and convicting individual culprits and retaliating against nations that sponsor them. Declared...
Johnson took her chance and ran with it. She woke up at 5 a.m. and spent two hours on buses, dragging the kids to day care and then getting to training classes. For nine months now, she has been an operator at Sprint's calling center at 18th and Vine, and she's a star. She sits at a computer with a headset on, placing calls and billing calling cards. She handles 600 calls a day, at an average of 38 seconds a call. Already, she has racked up four "good customer-contact reports" from satisfied callers...
...released, and spent some serious time in the hospital, which brought everyone up short. It was a warning that time was passing, everywhere but in his music. So Time Out of Mind brought Dylan safely back home again to the hot center. It was as if everyone suddenly woke up and figured it was Dylan who had been asleep all these years. In fact, as always, he was the only one with his eyes open. To know that, all you had to do--still, and ever--is listen. And ask yourself the same question he flung...