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...heard the gun go off,” Sharpe said in his testimony. “I think the noise sort of woke me up a little bit. I heard the noise and I left...
...Afghanistan is going well. The Rockaway plane crash is looking like an ordinary accident. And there are no new anthrax victims. Seems like a good time to enjoy a breather, a holiday from seriousness, the seriousness we woke up to on Sept. 11. Hence the righteous fulmination from critics left and right against measures the Bush Administration has put in place to detain, question and try suspected terrorists...
...went to bed on the night before Thanksgiving at about 10:45 p.m. and woke up a little after 1 p.m. Though my not-so-interesting story will be told with twinkle in eye delight for the next three weeks in response to the invariable “So how was your break?,” I know that it is not uncommon. With papers and exams just around the corner, the sleep schedule gets a bit crazy. Maybe I can get my boyfriend to call me at 4 a.m. so I can get up and finish my paper before...
...woke up this morning to hear the terrible news that three of our colleagues were killed on Chaghatai ridge last night, one day after the Northern Alliance thought they had cleared it of all Taliban resistance. It has sent a chill through all the journalists here, as well as the Afghan drivers, interpreters, military commanders and officials we have been working with. Below is an account of what happened, as best we can reconstruct it from the journalists who survived and the Afghan soldiers who were with them...
...Cocktails, which will be the third in a trilogy based on my life: Lunch, Tea and Cocktails. For years, as a queer man, those were the only meals I ever had. They weren’t necessarily always in the same order. Sometimes I would have cocktails when I woke up. Sometimes I would have lunch in the middle of the night...