Month: October 2001
The supposed rescuers scored gifts and praise, but accomplished nothing
“Nice people swollen up with legitimately good intentions but hopelessly ineffectual; praise from the man occupying the highest office in the true north strong and free, and a convivial atmosphere in which, despite abundant clues that this might not be quite what it appeared, no one would call the spade a spade even as it…
I was happy. Well, not happy, but relieved to hear those stupid allegations
“Before he read the allegations I asked him, ‘Do you think this thing will be done before the board exams or after the board exams?’ He said, ‘You have no idea of the seriousness of your situation. Let’s get real here. Don’t worry about your board exams. We are worried about your life.’”
From the ages of 6 to 10, the scarf was my daily uniform in Iran
“I was standing on the corner of Broadway and Pike Street, waiting for the light to change so I could cross, when a young man shoved me in front of a moving vehicle. Fortunately, the driver stopped in time. I faced the guy who pushed me, but all he said was “I guess I tripped…
Tracking immigrants relies in part on forms distributed by flight attendants
“K-mart knows every product purchased every day by the minute and that’s billions of products, but we can’t track millions of people who come into this country. If you could just have caught a few of them at the border or with better tracking, then the entire conspiracy may have begun to unravel.”