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...pile on a grassy common outside a sprawling Soviet-era tenement. The building is home to several hundred families in the suburb of Microyan, and the detonation, only thirty yards from the ground floor apartments, shattered every window facing the park in the crumbling five-story block. Sleeping children woke terrified, coated in shards of glass. A three-year-old stood by her mother, her face laced with tiny cuts. Two or three people were reported injured, none seriously. For hours the tinkling of sweeping glass could heard up and down the corridors...
...Sept. 11, I woke up a little later than usual,” Plotkin said. “When I was getting ready to go to work, I heard that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center, but it sounded from the news that it was a small plane...
...think people saw it until then." But a third adviser, someone who has known Bush well for 15 years, dismisses all that and says he believes Bush's tendency to reduce everything to clear-cut choices stems from his decision to quit drinking in 1986, when he woke up one day and realized that drinking was undisciplined and bad and that not drinking was disciplined and good. Few choices in life are so clear, so difficult, but the hardest thing he ever did also worked for him. This ally suggests that Bush's decision to render his own life into...
...woke last night and listened to the silence. It was a late, deep hour, long after midnight, long before dawn. I thought about how, for someone with Alzheimer's, silence must be like a prison, another corner of the wasteland. There can be nothing soothing or serene about...
...tormenting is intentional. For instance, on the third night, one of my campers was sleepwalking at 3 a.m. and locked himself out of his room. His roommate turned out to be the heaviest sleeping kid—ever. It took 20 minutes of pounding on the door before he woke up. I never knew I could be so patient...