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...Thursday morning in April 2003, Dr. Said Hakki woke up in his Tampa, Florida, home and drove to the hospital where he had worked for years to perform a routine prostate surgery. After scrubbing out, he drove to the airport, caught a flight to Washington, D.C and then another to Baghdad, the hometown he hadn't seen in 20 years. "It went back centuries - not decades," Dr. Hakki says of his first impressions. Now the president of the Iraqi Red Crescent Organization, the country's largest aid group, he bemoans the lack of humanitarian assistance in Iraq. "I used...
...courageous efforts of Egyptian judges, teachers, journalists and bloggers in demanding greater freedoms. "Egypt is not the same country it was 10 years ago," he says, sitting down for a cigarette in his dental office after treating a patient one recent evening. "In politics, in literature, Egypt woke...
...then maybe that was the metaphor right there - no one knew what was going to happen. Like a football play, Republican politics in these final days before Tuesday's vote has been a chaos of flying bodies and last-minute audibles. Romney woke up in Nashville Monday, had lunch in Atlanta, refueled in Oklahoma, and then spoke at dusk in Long Beach, California. He slept on the redeye back to West Virginia, where his schedule called for about three hours in a hotel Tuesday morning before he had to speak again to another cheering crowd. His chief rival and confirmed...
...small success on the next, Huckabee made an Internet sensation out of his endorsement by TV tough guy Chuck Norris. Then Huckabee's speech to a gathering of social conservatives in Washington was a grand slam over the right-field fence. After a year of hard work, he woke up an overnight sensation in the polls. An audience in Newton, Iowa, this week numbered closer to 200 than two dozen, and Huckabee's words were being recorded by journalists from Britain, Ireland and Spain. "I'm a pretty happy guy," he told the gathering...
...isolation of what are inherently social beings, made manifest most clearly by the steel and glass boxes known as cars. Trains are the counterrevolution.Consider a trip I took home last January.Around 7 a.m., or about 16 hours into the trip, we were somewhere in northwestern Pennsylvania. I woke up, hungry, and decided to see if I could find some food. I ventured back into the food car where I ordered a bagel, took a seat next to a loud, boisterous group of Norsemen, and promptly told the one nearest me to shut up, if he didn’t mind.The...